A friend must not be injured, even in jest. [ Syrus ]
There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]
Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Erasmus injured us more by his wit than Luther by his anger. [ Leo X ]
When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. [ Tacitus ]
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon, who commit the wrong. [ Dryden ]
Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. [ Publius Syrus ]
I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts. [ Rowland Hill ]
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]
I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. [ Henry Home ]
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong. [ Jane Porter ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]