The offender never pardons. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The man who pardons easily courts injury. [ Corneille ]

Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves. [ Juvenal ]

Pardons and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He pardons the ravens, but visits with censure the doves. [ Juv ]

God pardons like a mother who kisses away the repentant tears of her child. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. [ Saadi ]

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which Nature never pardons. [ Emerson ]

God never pardons: the laws of His universe are irrevocable. God always pardons: sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. [ William Smith ]