“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
9 October 1746
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield 65
British statesman and man of letters 1694–1773Related quotes
1860s
Context: There is no doubt that all nations are aggressive; it is the nature of man. There start up from time to time between countries antagonistic passions and questions of conflicting interest, which, if not properly dealt with, would terminate in the explosion of war. Now, if one country is led to think that another country, with which such questions might arise, is from fear disposed on every occasion tamely to submit to any amount of indignity, that is an encouragement to hostile conduct and to extreme proceedings which lead to conflict. It may be depended on that there is no better security for peace between nations than the conviction that each must respect the other, that each is capable of defending itself, and that no insult or injury committed by the one against the other would pass unresented.
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1862/feb/17/obsebvations in the House of Commons (17 February 1862).
“Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 64
“Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.”
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
“Receive an injury rather than do one.”
Maxim 5
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries as much as you think they deserve.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
In one of his lectures delivered at Ferguson College in a social conference of the Congress as a counter to the one held by the extremist Tilak group. Quoted in pages= 113
“5430. We are more mindful of Injuries than Benefits.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
