"I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open."
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"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it."
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"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem."
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"If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced."
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"Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind."
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"The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him."
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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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"Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour."
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"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
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"Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just."
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"If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless."
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"I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment."
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"The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting."
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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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"Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God."
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"When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward."
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"Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense."
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"Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence."
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"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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"If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short."
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