More from The Advancement of Learning (1605)
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. "Of Revenge," Essays (1597-1625).
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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