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We all like to
forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor
who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy
for us to forgive them.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
Absolute
virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads,
with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential
Writer
One can't
relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult;
one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good,
that's obvious.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
1894-1961, French Author
Never does the
human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes
revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
1814-1880, American Author,
Clergyman
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Little,
vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are
incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their
enemies.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
Wrongs are
often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers
it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are
more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will
confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that
would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
Love thy
neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not
wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy
enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God
in his behalf.
-- Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical
Teacher, Philosopher
Those who
easily forgive invite offenses.
-- Pierre Corneille
1606-1684, French Dramatist
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