John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone."
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Frederick The Great
King
"You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity."
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"Dismiss whatever insults your soul."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!"
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"Every great thinker is someone else's moron."
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"To tolerate is to insult."
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"If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you."
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"A bad forgery's the ultimate insult."
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"It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down."
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"He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices."
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"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?"
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"Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime."
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"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."
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"I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self."
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"The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg."
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"A humanitarian is always a hypocrite."
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"What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect."
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"Insults are the business of the court."
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"Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it."
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"My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly."
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"It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it."
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"Life without music would be an intolerable insult."
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