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.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
Jeffrey Sachs

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
Jennifer O'Neill

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Princess Diana

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer