“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”
~ Seneca
Seneca on Revenge
“The most contemptuous form of revenge is not to deem one’s adversary worth taking vengeance upon.”
~ Seneca
Seneca on Revenge
“How much better to heal than seek revenge from injury.”
~ Seneca
Benjamin Franklin on Words
There’s small revenge in words, but words may be greatly revenged.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin on Revenge
Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin on Revenge
If you would be reveng’d of your enemy, govern yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Socrates on Revenge
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”
~ Socrates
Hunter Thompson on Vengeance
“Because sooner or later the enemy will make a mistake and then you start grinding him down.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Hunter Thompson on Revenge
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Pope Francis on Joy
“To live joyfully we must let go of anger, wrath, violence, and revenge.”
~ Pope Francis
William Shakespeare
” … for pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Vengeance
“The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.”
~ William Shakespeare
Marcus Aurelius on Revenge
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
Ellis on Retribution
“Ellis:
Well all the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.”
~ Ellis / No Country For Old Men