Remorse drives the weak to despair and the strong to sainthood.

[Die Reue treibt den Schwachen zur Verzweiflung und macht den Starken zum Heiligen.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 412 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

 
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