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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is read more
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to read more
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
To err is human; to forget, divine.
To err is human; to forget, divine.
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the read more
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
