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injury
«Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury»
«The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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«One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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«ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances»
«Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.»