They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Josiah Bailey

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
Pierre Corneille

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
James Thomson

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.
Darren L. Johnson

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.