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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.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes 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.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 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?]”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes Source: Fables (V, 3, 4)
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“If you speak insults you will hear them also.
[Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes 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.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Ira (II, 32)
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