The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.
Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don’t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I’m Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. You’re new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.
The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks.
It's important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.