“To be distracted is pardonable. To be incoherent is simply unobliging.”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
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“Repentance deserveth Pardon.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
William Congreve The Old Bachelor
Act IV, scene x
The Old Bachelor (1693)
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur.
"Deuxième discours: de la liberté," Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
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“557. The offender never pardons.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Maxim 330.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“When forbearance is mischievous, to pardon is weakness.”
As-Saffah (722–754) First Abbasid caliph
History of the Caliphs, p. 263
“Those who understand evil pardon it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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“Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.”
Robert Silverberg book Up the Line
Source: Up the Line (1969), Chapter 4