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«In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior»
«I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
bore, revenge, revenged, revenges, Revenge of, revenging, warn
«Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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abound, abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, forgiving, incapable, revenge, vicious
«May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. . . . We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
returned, revenge, right-minded, Right to return, succumb, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs
«LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disposition, forbearance, injury, maturing, meek, meekest, revenge
«Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
meekness, planning, revenge, uncommon
«I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
blemish, blemished, blemishes, curse, depravities, depravity, expedient, Expedients, instinct, intrinsic, mortal, petty, poisonous, revenge, subterranean, sufficiently
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
«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»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Prudence
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains, cautious, contemptuous, excites, expressions, mark, prudence, revenge, the threat of, Threats, weaken, weakening
«Kindness, nobler ever than revenge»
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