| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe | | Bible | | | It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. | | George Santayana | | | Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion | | Frank Herbert | | | | | Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. | | Samuel Johnson | | | | | Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. | | Albert Schweitzer | | | | | There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. | | Alexandre Dumas | | | | | | | Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. | | Mark Twain | | | You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. | | Ambrose Bierce | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 14 of 14 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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