“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.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance”
Winston Churchill
“He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself”
Chinese Proverbs
“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
Samuel Johnson
“Where vice is vengeance follows.”
Scottish Proverb
“When the blameless and the righteous die, the very gods for vengeance cry”
Vlad Taltos
“Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy