Seneca the Younger Quotes

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

There are faults we would fain pardon.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

A king who desires his own welfare must always forgive litigants, infants, aged and sick men, who inveigh against him.

Love truth, but pardon error.

If err we must, let us err on the side of tolerance.

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.'

We need Grace and forgiveness.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

I could forgive anybody.

Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.