
Źródło: Luźne kartki, Ossolineum, 1967, s. 144.
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in Life of Pittacus, i. 76, citing Heraclitus as his source.
Pittacus made this remark to justify his release of his captured enemy Alcaeus.
According to William Shepard Walsh, in Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892), p. 392, Epictetus, quoting from the same source, gives the phrase thus: "Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is proof of a gentle, the other of a savage, nature."
Źródło: Luźne kartki, Ossolineum, 1967, s. 144.
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. (ang.)
Źródło: Revenge is Sour, „Tribune”, 9 listopada 1945 http://orwell.ru/library/articles/revenge/english/e_revso
Cognoscere ignoscere. (łac.)
Źródło: Samodręk, 218
w 1993 r. na spotkaniu z Rodzinami Katyńskimi w Warszawie.
Źródło: „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 8 kwietnia 2010.