tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner

[ too kawn-prahn-druh, se too par-daw-ney ]

French.

1. to understand all is to forgive all.

Example Sentences

The French say “tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner”— to understand all is to forgive all.

From Washington Post

In his own way Spencer felt that "tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner," but it has been truly said that "the natural man would rather be passionately denounced than treated as a phenomenon to be co-ordinated."

From Project Gutenberg

One was often reminded that the axiom, Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner, was habitually present to her mind.

From Project Gutenberg

Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner; but God alone reaches that “Tout.”

From Project Gutenberg

Until recently he had shared the current belief—"tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner"—because of the limitless, patient, condoning affection inhering in true wifehood, but the teamster's daughter was a law unto herself, and taught him that some women, who love most intensely and faithfully, forgive not at all.

From Project Gutenberg