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One forgives to the degree that one loves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

- Jessamyn West

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

- Hannah More

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

- Thomas Fuller

Men are apt to offend (’tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

- William Congreve

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

- Oscar Wilde

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

- Ausonius

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

- Alexander Chase