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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." »Marcus Aurelius
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"You add insult to injury." »Anonymous
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"To add insult to injury." »Phaedrus
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"He who puts up with insult invites injury." »Jewish Proverb
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"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." »Lord Chesterfield
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"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury." »William Blake
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"You add insult to injury.
(Injuriae Addis Contumeliam)" »Anonymous
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"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense." »Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it." »Seneca
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"...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury." »R Chamberlain
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"A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours." »Tillotson
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"The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure." »Chilo
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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." »John Stuart Mill
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." »E. H. Chapin
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury." »Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division." »John Ruskin
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"This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division." »John Ruskin
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"Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work?s begun; forgive it, and ?tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury." »Francis Quarles
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
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"If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.*" »Plato
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"The round of a passionate man?s life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation." »Johnson
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"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy." »Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
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"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy." »Unknown
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"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*" »Plato
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"Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built." »Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
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