Quote #130
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Friedrich von Schiller
- Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
- That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
- Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
- The key to education is the experience of beauty.
- Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
- The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
- Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
- The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.