What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Know all and you will pardon all.
Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Love truth, but pardon error.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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