I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), (attributed)

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance¹ need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Scott Adams (1957 - )

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

The Talmud