Francis Bacon Quotes

To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

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

A close friend can become a close enemy.

Some people you can forgive and forget. Some people you cannot forgive or forget. There are other people you can forgive and not forget. So there's people you can forgive and forget. Forgive and not forget. It depends on what they've done.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.