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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and
insolence, if unpunished, increases!
[Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage
Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Heraclius (I, 2)
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
[Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Torquato Tasso (III, 3, 191)
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What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury?
[Lat., Quid facies tibi,
Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (V, 3, 4)
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
[Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Pseudolus (act IV, 7, 77)
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
[Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: De Ira (II, 32)
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