"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

(Paul Boese)

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888)

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

(William Blake)

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

(Alexander Pope)

"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature."
(Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778)