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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 9095 |
| AUTHOR: | Diogenes Laërtius (fl. early 3d cent.) |
| QUOTATION: | Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, “Forgiveness is better than revenge.” 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Pittacus. iii. |
| Note 1. Quoted by Epictetus (Fragment lxii.), “Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is the proof of a gentle, the other of a savage nature.” [back] |
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