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Quotations by Subject: Revenge
(Related Subjects: Forgiveness)
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), (attributed)
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.: The Talmud


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