“Forgiveness is the highest nobleminded revenge. Tha thứ là sự trả thù cao thượng nhất.”

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”

“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.”

“Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."”

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness”

“I beg everyone from the highest to the lowest to forgive me; I have given them all much very bad example.”

“That is why individuals and peoples need a “healing of memories”. This does not mean that they have to forget past events. Rather, they have to learn to look at them in a new way. Instead of remaining prisoners of the past, they have to recover their freedom to forgive. As the pope says: “The deadly cycle of revenge must be replaced by the new-found liberty of forgiveness.””