...sentence, but his final words neatly catch Hamlet's problem: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." Yet there is an appalling, an appealing, symmetry (a justice?) when we see vengeance achieved. Just...

...myself. St. Augustine of Hippo A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior. Francis Bacon The noblest vengeance is to forgive. Henry George Bohn Revenge,...

..."Revenge is a kind of wild justice," wrote Sir Francis Bacon, adding like a civilized prosecutor, "which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."1 On the grounds that the king's peace was broken by a murder, retribution was increasingly monopolized...

...interested0 therein themselves for their own ends'. 4. OF REVENGE0 REVENGE is a kind of wild0 justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law...to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but0 offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.0 Certainly, in taking...

...FROM SENECA'S DE IRA AND VERDI'S RIGOLETTO Laurence F. Bove Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon1 Of many varied ways to inflict harm on persons or property, revenge stands out in history,...

...The Elizabethan Villain as Revenger Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's natur« runs to, the more ought law to weed it out; for as...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. (Bacon, Sir Francis. An Anthology of English Classics. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1935.) A villain...

...revengeI Am . . . living in the rhythm of the god within 119 fill, defensive fouls are not the answer. "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." (Sir Francis Bacon) Two wrongs don't make a right. Infidelity implodes the very foundation of the marriage...

...Essays: or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625), Bacon states that "Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out" (Essays (London: JM Dent, 1906), 13). 2 The Soviet judge IT Nikitchenko dissented from the verdicts...

...you came out on top, realize you have lowered yourself to become a smaller person for the antagonism. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over, he is superior. — Sir Francis Bacon There is no good that comes from burning your bridges through...

...when one takes revenge"), and Francis Bacon insists that "Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out",24 there are also those like Heinrich Heine who take a more ironic stance: My thoughts are very...