“Revenge may be a wound that transcends all human consciousness. Those who are trapped in it will never be the same person again.”

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“Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.”

Pandosto (1588); p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=5FIPAAAAQAAJ&q="Treason+is+loved+of+many+but+the+traitor+hated+of+all"&pg=PA9#v=onepage.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
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