Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
Justice is 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.
Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
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.
Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
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