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• To add insult to injury. -- Phaedru
• He who puts up with insult invites injury. Jewish Proverb
• QUICKIE -- no sooner spread than done.
• It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
• Most things are better eaten than forgotten.
• I would sooner be notorious than unknown.
• Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth.
  For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears....
• Impatience dires the blood sooner than age or sorrow. -- Creo