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Letter "R" » revenge
«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.»
«Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Diplomat,
Statesman,
Wit)
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Keywords:
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.»
«LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.»
«Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.»
«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
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Christianity,
Mankind
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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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
ambition,
avarice,
cruelty,
fluid,
fluids,
founded,
lends,
lust,
lust after,
nervous,
revenge,
supports
«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
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About:
Prudence
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Keywords:
abstain,
abstaining,
abstains,
cautious,
contemptuous,
excites,
expressions,
mark,
prudence,
revenge,
the threat of,
Threats,
weaken,
weakening
«Kindness, nobler ever than revenge»