“I’ve come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.”

— Pelé

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Brazilian association football player 1940–2022

William Henry Ashurst (judge) (1725–1807) English judge

Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.

“You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.”

Philip K. Dick book Clans of the Alphane Moon

Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 11 (p. 196)

“Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.”

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

“5430. We are more mindful of Injuries than Benefits.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“Receive an injury rather than do one.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 5
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 3; Variant translation: Never do any enemy a small injury for they are like a snake which is half beaten and it will strike back the first chance it gets.