The deaf gains the injury. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Revenge never repairs an injury. [ Proverb ]
Injury is to be measured by malice. [ Proverb ]
The man who pardons easily courts injury. [ Corneille ]
Upbraiding turns a benefit into an injury. [ Proverb ]
It is no injury that is not meant an injury. [ Proverb ]
It is worse to do than to revenge an injury. [ Proverb ]
The man is free who is protected from injury. [ Daniel Webster ]
It is better to receive than to do an injury. [ Cicero ]
He is below himself who is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]
Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge. [ Proverb ]
The best way of revenge is not to imitate the injury. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. [ Proverb ]
Justice needs not injury to assist it in getting its own. [ Proverb ]
He that defends an injury is next to him that commits it. [ Proverb ]
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering. [ Syrus ]
It is generous to bear an injury, but dangerous to requite it. [ Proverb ]
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
He is the wretch that does the injury, not he that endures it. [ Proverb ]
Anger is many times more hurtful than the injury that caused it. [ Proverb ]
The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
He does bounty an injury, who shews her so much as to be laughed at. [ Proverb ]
There is more merit in subduing a passion than in avenging an injury. [ Mascaron ]
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. [ Confucius ]
Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to thyself or to others: this is true morality. [ Chamfort ]
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. [ Hannah More ]
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize. [ Confucius ]
Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. [ Saadi ]
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. [ Johnson ]
The memory of a benefit soon vanishes, but the remembrance of an injury sticks fast in the heart. [ Proverb ]
If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it. [ Seneca ]
An injury cannot be done to a consenting party, (i.e. if he consents or connives, he cannot complain. [ Law ]
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. [ Xenophon ]
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. [ Addison ]
With the world, do not resort to injuries, but only to irony and gayety: injury revolts, while irony makes one reflect, and gayety disarms. [ Voltaire ]
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury: for he has it then in his power to make himself his superior to the other by forgiveness. [ Drummond ]
To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]
Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin. [ Lowell ]
O poets! what injury you have done us, and how right Plato was to banish you from his republic! How your ambrosia has rendered more bitter our absinth! How have we found our lives more barren and more desolate, after having turned our eyes toward the sublime perspectives which your dreams have opened in the infinite! [ T. Gautier ]
To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]
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 ]