XVI
Forgiveness
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The earth supporteth even those that dig into her: even so bear thou with those that traduce thee; for that is greatness.
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Forgive thou always the injuries that others may do thee: but if thou forget them, it were even better.
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The most shameful poverty is the refusal of hospitality: and the greatest strength is to bear with the dullness of fools.
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If thou want to be grand always, be forgiving unto all.
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The wise respect not the men who retaliate an injury: but they are prized as gold who forgive their enemy.
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The joy of revenge lasteth but a day: but the glory of him who forgiveth endureth forever.
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Be the wrong suffered ever so great: the better part is not to take it to heart and to abstain from revenge.
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Conquer by thy nobility those that in their pride have injured thee.
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More saintly than even those that have renounced are they that bear with the bitter tongue of their detractors.
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Those that do penance by fasting are great: but they only come after those that forgive their calumniators.