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Punishment: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.— ADDISON — Cato. Act III. Sc. 5.
Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow: Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I. L. 221.
The twig is so easily bended, I have banished the rule and the rod : I have taught them the goodness of knowledge, They have taught me the goodness of God; My heart is the dungeon of darkness, Where I shut them for breaking a rule; My frown is sufficient correction; My love is the law of the school. C.— CHARLES M. DICKINSON — The Children.
That is the bitterest of all, to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.— GEORGE ELIOT — Daniel Deronda. Bk. V. Ch. XXXVI.
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.— HORACE MANN — Lectures and Reports
on Education. Lecture VII. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 699.
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 274.
Ut quimus, aiunt, quando ut volumus, non licet. As we can, according to the old saying, when we can not, as we would.— TERENCE — Andria. IV. 5. 10.
Litus ama: * * * altum alii teneant. Keep close to the shore: let others venture on the deep.— VIRGIL — Eneid. V. 163.
Cavendum est ne major pœna quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem. 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.— CICERO — De Officiis. I. 23.
Culpam pœna premit comes. Punishment follows close on crime.— HORACE — Carmina. IV. 5. 24.
Ne scuticâ dignum horribili sectere flagello. Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.— HORACE — Satiræ. I. 3. 119.
Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est. The sins committed by many pass unpunished.— LUCAN — Pharsalia. V. 260.
Estque pati pœnas quam meruisse minus. It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. S.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. I. 1. 62.
Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit. If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.— OVID — Tristium. II. 33.
Deos agere curam rerum humanarum credi, ex usu vitæ est: pœnasque maleficiis, aliquando seras, nunquam autem irritas esse. It is advantageous that the gods should be believed to attend to the affairs of man; and the punishment for evil deeds, though sometimes late, is never fruitless. PLINY the Elder-Historia Naturalis. II. 5. 10. Corrigendus est, qui peccet, et admonitione et vi, et molliter et aspere, meliorque tam sibi quam alii faciendus, non sine castigatione, sed sine ira. He, who has committed a fault, is to be corrected both by advice and by force, kindly and harshly, and to be made better for himself as well as for another, not without chastisement, but without passion.— SENECA — De Ira. I. 14.
Maxima est factæ injuriæ pæna, fecisse: nec quisquam gravius adficitur, quam qui ad supplicium pœnitentiæ traditur. The severest punishment a man can receive who has injured another, is to have committed the injury; and no man is more severely punished than he who is subject to the whip of his own repentance.— SENECA — De Ira. III. 26.
Nec ulla major pœna nequitiæ est, quam quod sibi et suis displicet. There is no greater punishment of wickedness than that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium. XLII.
Du spottest noch? Erzittre! Immer schlafen Des Rächers Blitze nicht. Thou mockest? Tremble! the avenger's lightning bolts do not forever dormant lie.— WIELAND — Oberon. I. 50.