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• I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Expression, Hatred

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• One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Hurt, Writing, Illumination

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• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  William Shenstone

  Anger, Fighting, Fever

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151

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• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, World, Share

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• With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

  Francis Quarles

  Vow, Flux, Bloody

  Francis Quarles (1861). “Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers”, p.35

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• we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

  Hannah More

  Enemy, Looks, Thunder

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.199

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• ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.

  Etty Hillesum

  Grief, Sadness, Space

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• Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.

  Philip Massinger

  Hurt, Soul, Thirsty

  Philip Massinger (1817). “Beauties of Massinger”, p.262

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• The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

  Theodor Adorno

  Stupidity, Wish, Murder

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.122, Verso

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• Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
  And silent, settles into full revenge.

  John Tillotson

  Anger, Storm, Silent

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• In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Passing

  Mrs.charlotte lennox. (1762). “Sophia”, p.139

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• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, People, Division

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• hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Hurt, People, Hurting Others

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• It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

  Sybille Bedford

  War, Teeth, Hundred

  Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.143, New York Review of Books

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• A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.

  Jane Porter

  Spring, Humility, Punishment

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

  Jane Smiley

  Facts, Knows, Urges

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.195, Anchor

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Doe, Shy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.78, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Order, Giving

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• Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Children, Father, Grief

  Mary Jo Putney, Michael F. Roizen (1999). “The Wild Child”, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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• We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

  Liam Neeson

  Country, Moving, Differences

  "Liam Neeson Seeks Revenge in Seraphim Falls!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. January 26, 2007.

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• Revenge never does anyone any good. Killing the person you hate will never ease the pain. Always look forward! Follow the path of light!

  Mikage

  Pain, Hate, Light

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• Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.

  Mikage

  Hate, Light, Path

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• When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

  Rob Bell

  Insulting, Want, Instinct

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• I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Unhappy, Done

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, War, Ghetto

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