“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”
Elbert Hubbard
“We are not punished for our sins, but by them”
“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
“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
Voltaire
“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others”
Jules Renard
