I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act. Imelda Marcos
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
Wars, both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy. Augustus
[A] falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself. John Buchan
He has glorified himself by recording that when men were detected in any fault, they would excuse themselves by saying that they must be pardoned if they did anything amiss, for they were not Catos: and that those who endeavoured clumsily to imitate his proceedings were called left-handed Catos. Plutarch
Mistakes are to be pardoned. Latin Proverb