Random thoughts on Forgiveness

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
- Francis Bacon, Of Revenge

Love truth but pardon error.
- François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 – 1778

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- Saint Francis of Assisi, 1182 – 1226

Almost all our faults are more pardonable
than the methods we resort to to hide them.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 – 1680