Quotes with affronts

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• It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

  ― Epictetus
  Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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• Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.

  Source: Cato

  ― Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• insulting
• provoking
• opinion
• forget
• young

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