Forgiveness

QUOTES

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
 John F Kennedy
 

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
 Nelson Mandela
 1996

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
 Paul Boese
 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
 William Blake
 Jerusalem, 1820

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
 Alexander Pope
 Essay on Criticism, 1711

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
 Cosimo de Medici
 1440

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
 Thomas Szasz
 The Second Sin, 1973

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