Quotes
Quotes about Punishment
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis; Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni Majus tormentus.]
Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Hatred is self-punishment.
Hatred is self-punishment.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. [Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest.]
