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Pierre Corneille
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases
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Leonardo da Vinci
He who offends others, does not secure himself
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Ren� Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it
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Khalil Gibran
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember
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Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offence and too noble to give it
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Alexander Pope
And love the offender, yet detest the offence
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Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both
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Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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