Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur.
"Deuxième discours: de la liberté," Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
Citas
Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation it would be only an experience to her as to man. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
Act IV, scene x
The Old Bachelor (1693)
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
“Truth is an antidote against error. Error is the adultery of the mind.”
Heaven Taken By Storm
“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
Maxim 330.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.”
“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)
Qu’est-ce que la tolérance? c’est l’apanage de l’humanité. Nous sommes tous pétris de faiblesses et d’erreurs; pardonnons-nous réciproquement nos sottises, c’est la première loi de la nature.
"Tolerance" (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Young India 1924-1926 (1927), p. 1285
1920s
