“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”
Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed
Source: The Light That Failed
“He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.”
— Angela Carter, book Wise Children
Source: Wise Children
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Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: 1840s, Works of Love (1847), p. 296
“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
Widely attributed to Catherine II online, this has been attributed to Confucius in published books, but no print sources attribute this to Catherine.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990) Soviet rock musician (1962-1990)
As quoted in an interview with newspaper Arguments and Facts (1987), " 'Almost everyone can forgive us for honesty': the rules of life of Viktor Tsoi, who passed away 29 years ago" in Forum Daily https://www.forumdaily.com/en/nam-za-chestnost-mogut-prostit-prakticheski-vse-pravila-zhizni-viktora-coya-ushedshego-29-let-nazad/ (15 August 2019)
