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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to read more
See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, read more
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.
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
