We often forgive those who bore us but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.