Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

About Ausonius

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Decimus Magnus Ausonius (; c. 310 – c. 395) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future Emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the...

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness.

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Sometimes letting go and forgiving others and yourself is the only way to move forward in life.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying. I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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