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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.]

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Every sin brings its punishment with it.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

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He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

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Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand read more

And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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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.]

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And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee
to enter into life maimed, read more

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.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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