Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.