Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca the Younger

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Envy
  • Insult
  • Oneself

• I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Gay
  • Insult

• I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Guy
  • Insult
  • Kate Beckinsale

• It's not a face, but a personal insult.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Faces
  • Insult

• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Insult

• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Language
  • Revenge
  • Insult

• Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Image

• Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Blood
  • Insult

• Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Sight
  • Insult

• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Share
  • Avenge

• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Lies
  • Pleasure

• You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

  

  William Goldman
  • Father
  • Wonderful
  • Dare

• We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Insult
  • Comprehend

• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  

  George Washington
  • Enemy
  • Brave
  • Insult

• We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

  

  John Calvin
  • Respect
  • Charity
  • Faults

• What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fire
  • Wise
  • Blow

• They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Car
  • Knows
  • Jobs

• I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Hands
  • Insult
  • Firm

• Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Something
  • Universal

• While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can’t prove it. Believe Love Is People Profound Desire Common I Believe Obsession Modern Enough Fence True Love Is Prove It Prove Mesmerizing Attraction Sacrifice Self Sacrifice Afterglow Dna Elude Markers Measurement Self Territory Uncharted Uncharted Territory Understood Wells Courses Fortunate Seems Traveled Knows

  

  David Buss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Profound

• The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Essence
  • Achieves
  • Arrives

• I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Fight
  • Liberty
  • Existence

• It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Insult
  • Avenge