Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Limits Quotes

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

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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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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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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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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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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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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

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I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

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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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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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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

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

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

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Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

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