"Vengeance taken will often tear the heart..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.”

“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”

“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”

“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.”

“I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.”

“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”

“Beware of spitting against the wind!”

“An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”