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To kiss the rod.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: History of Reynard the Fox, (William Caxton's translation, printed by him) (1481)
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See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act III, sc. 5)
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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Author: Bible
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XIX, v. 21)
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And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. IV, v. 13)
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. IX, v. 6)
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And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done to him;
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath
caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Author: Bible
Source: Leviticus (ch. XIX, v. 19-20)
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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of
these little ones.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. XVII, v. 2)
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And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee
to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell,
into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Author: Bible
Source: Mark (ch. IX, v. 43-44)
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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 24)
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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
- Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
Author: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
Source: to Mr. Malet at Meaux, at the time of the Franco-German war
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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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 121)
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Frieth in his own grease.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (V, 6069), The Wife of Bath's Tale
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Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Legibus (bk. III, 20)
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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.
[Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem
de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (I, 23)
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He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and
who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with
discretion.
[Lat., Diis proximus ille est
Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens
Consilio punire potest.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Consulatu Malii Theodori Panygyris (CCXXVII)
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I stew all night in my own grease.
Author: Nathaniel Cotton
Source: Virgil Travestie (p. 35), (ed. 1807)
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'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Source: Essay on Translated Verse--Ovid
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That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. V, ch. XXXVI)
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Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Manners, during English Civil War, officers were sent for punishment to the garrison at Conv
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked
man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on
the bad.
Author: Euripides
Source: Fragment
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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
Author: Euripides
Source: Fragment
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My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
Author: William S. Gilbert
Source: Mikado
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Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.
Author: William S. Gilbert
Source: Mikado
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The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
[The wolf must die in his own skin.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (IV, 5, 24)
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Author: Elbert Green Hubbard
Source: None
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Author: St. Augustine
Source: None
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Source: None
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Author: Michel Foucault
Source: None
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Author: Romanian Proverb
Source: None
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Author: John Ruskin
Source: None
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Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Author: Hedda Hopper
Source: None
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Source: None
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Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
Author: Saint Augustine
Source: None
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
Author: Juvenal
Source: None
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The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: None
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Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Author: Don Marquis
Source: None
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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
Author: Plato
Source: None
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If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.
Author: John Locke
Source: None
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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