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

—Francis Bacon

About Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works...

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

—Francis Bacon

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing—that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

—Francis Bacon

By far the best proof is experience.

—Francis Bacon

In charity there is no excess.

—Francis Bacon

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

—Francis Bacon

More quotations tagged with “revenge”

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

—Francis Bacon

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

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

—Niccolo Machiavelli

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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

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