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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.