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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Insult |
| Qui se laisse outrager, mérite qu’on l’outrage Et l’audace impunie enfle trop un courage. He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! Corneille—Heraclius. I. 2. | 1 |
| Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen. No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. Goethe—Torquato Tasso. III. 3. 191. | 2 |
| Quid facies tibi, Injuriæ qui addideris contumeliam? What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? Phædrus—Fables. V. 3. 4. | 3 |
| Contumeliam si dices, audies. If you speak insults you will hear them also. Plautus—Pseudolus. Act IV. 7. 77. | 4 |
| Sæpe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci. It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. Seneca—De Ira. II. 32. | 5 |
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