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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

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I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

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