Joseph Jacobs famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

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