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“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment”
Voltaire
“There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.”
Lope de Vega
“Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.”
Marquis De Sade
“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it”
Cato the Censor
“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”
Jerry Falwell
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”
Saint Augustine
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
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