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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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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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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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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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It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

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