“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

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

“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.”

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

“The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.”

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

“As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.”

“The forgiveness of Christ is complete, and without condition. It is not dependent on an apology, or tied to a punishment.”