Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.