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Classical antiquity2 quotes
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return. — Socrates · 399 BCIndeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind. — Juvenal · 127The Renaissance1 quote
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. — William Shakespeare · 1613