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      考研英语阅读篇章：论复仇
    Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the
more ought law to weed it out. 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(不可改变的); 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(荆棘), 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(背信弃义的) or neglecting friends, as if those
wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to
forgive our enemies; but 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(怀恨的) persons
live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous(陶气的), so end they
infortunate.
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