Calumny is Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calumny is Funny Inspirational Insult Insulted Love
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The only way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, Laugh… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you cant ignore it, top it. If you cant top it,… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you can't ignore it, then top it. If you can't top it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you cant ignore it, than top it. If you cant top it,… — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Remember That ... The Best Way To Answer An INSULT Is To Ignore It. If You Can't Ignore It, Top It. If You Can't… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Anger is triggered by insult, then, and so is connected to worth (aretê) and to honour (timê). A person is insulted when the treatment he receives is worse than the treatment his worth entitles him to receive. He is honoured when he is given treatment proportional to his worth, and his worth is above or well-above average. When we speak… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share
“the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it,… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
