An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! — what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently — and tolerantly — to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises.
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.