A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
A man's character is his fate.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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