REVENGE
O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
A lawsuit is a machine you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842–c. 1914)
A man who studies revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
He who seeks revenge, digs two graves.
Chinese Proverb
It is foolish to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus (First Century b.c.)
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert (1593–1633)
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindnesses.
Men must not turn into bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
Revenge in cold blood is the devil’s own act and deed.
Revenge is a confession of pain.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.-a.d. 65)
Revenge is the pure delight of little minds.
Juvenal (c. 60–c. 127)
Revenge proves its own executioner.
The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)
The smallest revenge will poison the soul.
Jewish Proverb
To forget a wrong is mild revenge.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)
When we “get even” with someone, that is literally what we are doing—becoming even with them, that is, descending to their level in vengeance and losing whatever moral advantage we may have had.
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986)
