“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.” -- Peter Winter
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“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]” -- Peter Winter
“I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.”
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.”
“We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.”
“Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.”
“It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.”
“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”
Boniface Wimmer
Edgar Winter Musician
Emanuel Schikaneder Impresario
