“I will punish those who sit contented in their sins, indifferent to God, thinking he will let them alone.”
Zephaniah
“Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober”
Legal Maxim
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
Voltaire
“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”
Elbert Hubbard
“We are not punished for our sins, but by them”
“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others”
Jules Renard
“One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
Oscar Wilde
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