“It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.”

— Horace, Satires, I.3 (translation)

About Horace

65 BC – 8 BC

Roman lyric poet, author of the "Odes" and "Satires".

“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”

“Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”

“What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?”

“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.”