"How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies ..."

-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Pain Quotes #Revenge Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“My business is hurting people.”
“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
“Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.”

Source : Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.140, Penguin UK
“Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.111, Рипол Классик
“The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.”

Source : Mencius (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.380, Digireads.com Publishing
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“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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