Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon - Francis Bacon
Love truth but pardon error - François Marie Arouet
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned - Saint Francis of Assisi
Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld