“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”
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“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Maxim 304.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
John Kenneth Galbraith book The New Industrial State
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXXV, Section 5, p. 398
“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”
Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. p. 198
“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
Kate Mosse book The Winter Ghosts
Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts
“Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion (1990 Edition), p. 735