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Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct
by Michael McCullough

Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct
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Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge
by Ann Diver-Stamnes

Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge
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The Therapist's Encounters With Revenge and Forgiveness
by The Mary Sherrill Durham

The Therapist's Encounters With Revenge and Forgiveness
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- Revenge Quotes -

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
~ Earl of Chesterfield

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

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
~ German Proverb

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~ Josh Billings

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
~ Sir Francis Bacon

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
~ Juvenal

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
~ Paul Gauguin

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
~ Charlotte Bronte

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
~ Thomas Moore

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

Women do most delight in revenge.
~ Sir Thomas Browne

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
~ Unknown Author

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

Revenge is an inhuman word.
~ Seneca

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
~ Sir Walter Scott

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
~ The Talmud

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
~ John Milton

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
~ William Shakespeare

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
~ Phaedrus

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
~ Juvenal

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
~ Juvenal

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
~ George Bernard Shaw

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
~ Benjamin Franklin


Living well is the best revenge.
~ George Herbert
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