It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca
Some Similar Quotes
  1. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you? - Epictetus

  2. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  3. Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current. - Hunter S. Thompson

  4. It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult. - Dada Bhagwan

  5. Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value. - Plato

More Quotes By Seneca
  1. Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

  2. Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.

  3. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  4. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  5. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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