“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)

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