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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Great
  • Music
  • Doing

• I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Believe
  • Romantic
  • Big

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Insult
  • Avenge