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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.
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
 Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something 
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted read more 
 Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something 
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. 
 With ravish'd ears
 The monarch hears,
  Assumes the god,
   Affects to nod,
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 With ravish'd ears
 The monarch hears,
  Assumes the god,
   Affects to nod,
    And seems to shake the spheres. 
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, 
so shall it be done read more 
 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. 
 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.] 
 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
 Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.  
 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
 Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.