“We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.”
Wir sollen immer verzeihen, dem Reuigen um seinetwillen, dem Reuelosen um unseretwillen.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 25.
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