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Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
Let the punishment fit the crime
Let the punishment fit the crime
Frieth in his own grease.
Frieth in his own grease.