Revenge
To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
To take vengeance; -- with
The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
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Revenge Quotations
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce
Revenge Translations
revenge in Dutch is wraak
revenge in French is vengeance
revenge in German is Rache {f}, Rache, Ahndung {f}
revenge in Italian is vendetta
revenge in Latin is ultio ultionis
revenge in Spanish is venganza
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