A Quote by Confucius

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

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Before Dig Embark Graves Journey Revenge Two

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

Christopher Eccleston

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Allen C. Guelzo

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Douglas Horton

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

Confucius

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Ken Kesey

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You’re the only thing I’ve ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they’d have to dig two graves ‘cause I couldn’t live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Build castles, don't dig graves.

David J. Schwartz

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

Henri Nouwen

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.

Errol Morris

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.

Richard Rohr

At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.

Michael Leunig

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.

Lilith Saintcrow

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.