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It distinguishes settling wrongs from escalating them: taking revenge equals being even with an enemy, while passing it over expresses superiority and the role of pardon. The essay weighs motives and methods, contrasting generous, open restraint with dark, crafty harm that targets repentance. 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For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man, to pass by an offence. That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do, with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong, for the wrong’s sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like. Therefore why should I be angry with a man, for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. The most tolerable sort of revenge, is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy; but then let a man take heed, the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man’s enemy is still before hand, and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous, the party should know, whence it cometh. This is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be, not so much in doing the hurt, as in making the party repent. But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies;  \n12 Bacon’s Essays  \nbut you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends. But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God’s hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more. But in private revenges, it is not so. Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.  \nThe Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project","cbCaiiyWyKzfvIwR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiyWyKzfvIwR","pdf",22546,"English","# Of Revenge\n## Revenge as a danger to law\n## Passing over offences as superiority\n## Motives and methods of revenge\n## Consequences for personal and public justice","[{\"question\":\"Why does the essay say revenge should be “weed[ed] out” by law?\",\"answer\":\"Revenge for an initial wrong can put law “out of office,” since retaliation escalates beyond what the legal order can manage.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the essay claim about taking revenge versus passing it over?\",\"answer\":\"In taking revenge, a man is “but even” with his enemy; in passing it over, he is superior, since it is a prince’s part to pardon.\"},{\"question\":\"What warning does the essay give about private revenge and the person who pursues it?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests that private revenges are usually not fortunate and that vindictive persons “live the life of witches,” ending in misfortune while keeping their own wounds fresh.\"}]","Of Revenge - Justice of Revenge and Law | PDF",1792208240]