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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

Francis Bacon

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Of Revenge
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1625
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Revenge can keep an injury psychologically active long after the original event, making resentment a way of repeatedly reopening the hurt.

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Bacon, “Of Revenge”; the sentence continues by contrasting revenge with wounds that would otherwise heal.

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“How far better is it to heal an injury than to avenge it?”

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The question contrasts repair with retaliation: vengeance keeps attention fixed on the original wound, whereas healing aims to end the chain of injury rather than reproduce it.

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On Anger, Book III, section XXVII, Aubrey Stewart’s 1889 translation in Minor Dialogues Together with the Dialogue on Clemency, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and the complete Wikisource Book III transcription. “How far better is it to heal an injury than to avenge it?” opens section XXVII on printed page 146, immediately introducing Seneca’s argument that revenge prolongs and multiplies injury. The passage remains historical Stoic moral philosophy rather than a clinical claim about trauma or treatment.

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The mind is its own place.
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“The mind is its own place.”

John Milton · Paradise Lost · 1667
Voice: Poetic speaker · Satan
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The statement emphasizes how mental framing can alter the experience of circumstances, for good or ill.

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Paradise Lost (1667), Book I, line 254; retained legacy short extract from the fuller Satan sentence beginning ‘The mind is its own place’ and continuing into line 255. It is the same underlying passage as the longer catalog record, not a separate fifth passage.

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It is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself.
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“It is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself.”

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