"Usually the offended person repays with the same coin. (Phaedrus)"

"And every offense is certainly forgiven, | but it always remains in the memory, | and so one counterbalances the othe…"

"Perhaps it is only my offense that I love, and not him! (Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)"

"Men offend either out of fear or hatred. (Niccolo Machiavelli)"

"The fool immediately shows his anger, | the shrewd conceals the offense. (Book of Proverbs)"

"It is better to be offended than to offend. (Aldo Capitini)"

"Nor is there anything more like God | who show themselves pious against offenders." (Luigi Alamanni)"

"There are no offenses easier to forget than those suffered by others, especially if we were the ones who committed th…"

"It's almost never worth being offensive. It's never worth being half-offensive. (Norman Douglas)"

"[Referring to the caricatures of Muhammad] How poor is a culture that asserts itself by claiming the freedom to offen…"