Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.