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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee." »Epictetus
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"But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate." »Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"
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"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance." »Seneca
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"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance." »Clarence Darrow
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"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid." »Homer
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