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

• Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Insult

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

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Share
  • Avenge

• This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Comeback
  • Insult
  • Pilots

• 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

• Constantius II ordered pagan temples closed and sacrificial practices stopped. We have already seen a law issued in 341 CE: “Superstition shall cease; the madness of sacrifices shall be abolished... anyone... who performs sacrifices . . . shall suffer the infliction of a suitable punishment and the effect of an immediate sentence” (Theodosian Code 16.10.2). In a law of 346 CE, the penalties are specified: Temples “in all places and in all cities” are to be “immediately closed” and “access to them forbidden.” No one may perform a sacrifice. Anyone who does “shall be struck down with the avenging sword” and his “property shall be confiscated.” Any governor who fails to avenge such crimes “shall be similarly punished” (Theodosian Code 16.10.4); And perhaps more drastically, later in Constantius’s reign, in 356: “Anyone who sacrifices or worships images shall be executed” (Theodosian Code 16.10.6).

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Punishment
  • Crimes
  • Sacrifices

• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Tree
  • Creation
  • Insult

• If you could only hear what I dream.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Dream
  • Hear

• 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

• Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Left
  • Rib

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Insult
  • Avenge