Francis Bacon: Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more it spreads in human nature…

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more it spreads in human nature, the more ought the law to weed it out; for the first injury only offends the law, but revenge entirely sets aside its authority.

In today’s wordsRevenge is a kind of wild justice; the more it spreads, the more the law should root it out, because a first injury only offends the law, but revenge sets its authority aside entirely.