How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

If you want to pay me back one day, that's up to you. I'm not asking for it, and I never will. The best way you can pay me back is by becoming the person you want to be.

What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.