Quotes About Forgiveness

And why do you represent Providence? ... Why do you remember when it forgets?

I am the one whom you sold, betrayed and dishonoured. I am the one whose fiancée you prostituted. I am the one on whom you trampled in order to attain a fortune. I am the one whose father you condemned to starvation, and the one who condemned you to starvation, but who none the less forgives you, because he himself needs forgiveness. I am Edmond Dantès!

All charitable souls are requested to pray God for the sincere repentance of these two miserable creatures.

La haine est aveugle, la colère étourdie, et celui qui se verse la vengeance risque de boire un breuvage amer.

you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.

And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!

On vous pardonne, Renée, dit la marquise avec un sourire de tendresse qu'on était étonné de voir fleurir sur cette sèche figure ; mais le cÅ"ur de la femme est ainsi fait, que si aride qu'il devienne au souffle des préjugés et aux exigences de l'étiquette, il y a toujours un coin fertile et riant : c'est celui que Dieu a consacré à l'amour maternel

If a man had tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

You are forgetting the person who advised him.' 'Pah! If one were to be held to account for every remark one lets fall …' 'Yes, when it falls point downwards.

Les hommes vraiment généreux sont toujours prêts à devenir compatissants, lorsque le malheur de leur ennemi dépasse les limites de leur haine.

23. La isla de Montecristo

L'odio è cieco, la collera stordisce, e colui che si versa la vendetta rischia di bere un'amara pozione.

ma io, tradito, assassinato, gettato a mia volta in una tomba, ne sono uscito per grazia di Dio, e devo a Dio la mia vendetta: per questo mi manda, e sono qui.

Dantès had a heart of gold, he called all those people his friends... Poor Edmond! I suppose it's better he never found out; it would have been too hard for him to forgive them as he was dying. And no matter what they say, I'm more afraid of the curse of a dead man than the hatred of a living one.

men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.

La mer est le cimetière du château d'If.

j'ai encore plus peur de la malédiction des morts que de la haine des vivants.

Los hombres generosos son siempre compasivos, cuando la desgracia de su adversario es mayor que su odio.

To forgive is not to forget.

I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows? – perhaps a few friends to reward.

Voi iubi atât cât ai fost tu în stare s? iubeÈ™ti, zise el; voi suferi atât cât ai suferit tu; aceasta va fi o isp??ire în ochii t?i. Haide, domniÈ™oar?, s? l?s?m la o parte toate aceste micimi de prisos; s? fim mari ca îns??i durerea noastr?, s? fim tari ca îns??i dragostea noastr?.

Aramis: Ieri ho provato a fare penitenza con quella frusta che vedete appesa al muro e il dolore mi ha impedito di continuare questo pio esercizio D'Artagnan: Ma caro amico, dove si è mai sentito dire che una ferita di arma da fuoco si guarisce a forza di frustate? Siete scusabile solo perché la malattia vi indeboliva il cervello

V-am È›inut în braÈ›ele mele ca s? v? cruÈ› de furia puhoaielor, aÈ›i simÈ›it oare c? v-am strâns la piept? Nu. În mine nu mai d?inuie decât sufletul, È™i toat? f?ptura mea s-a cur??at de p?cate în focul mistuitor al dragostei mele.

No vice of the human heart is so acceptable to it as egotism: a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.