Quotes with provokes

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  • Seneca Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Epictetus 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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  • William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Walt Whitman Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Johnson What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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