Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled â... -
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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