Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]

Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malum read more

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit
pleurumque robustius.]

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why read more

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, read more

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars