PUNISHMENT PUNISHMENT
Ay—down to the dust with them, slaves as they are,
From this hour, let the blood in their dastardly veins,
That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war,
Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnant in chains.
Die and be damned.
Thomas Mortimer—Against the Cahinistic doctrine of eternal punishment.
AEquo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.
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Amorum. II. 7. 12.
Paucite paucarum diffundere crimen in omnes.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that
is due to a few.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. III. 9.
Estque pati pcenas quam meruisse minus.
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it.
OvJD—Epistolce Ex Ponto. I. 1. 62.
Deos agere curam rerum humanarum credi, ex
usu vitae est: pcsnasque maleficiis, aliquando
seras, nunquam autem irritas esse.
It is advantageous that the gods should be
believed to attend to the affairs of man; and
the punishment for evil deeds, though sometimes late, is never fruitless.
Pliny the Elder—Historia Naturalis. II. 5.
10.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whon most he likes.
John Pomfret—To a Friend Under Affliction.
L. 89.
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| text = But if the first Eve
Hard doom did receive
When only one apple had she,
What a punishment new
Must be found out for you,
Who eating hath robb'd the whole tree.
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He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
Proverbs. XIII. 24.
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| text = <poem>To kiss the rod.
History of Reynard the Fox. William Caxton's trans., printed by him. (1481)
Arber's English Scholar's Library. Ch. XII.
Quod antecedit tempus, maxima venturi supplied pars est.
The time that precedes punishment is the
severest part of it.
Seneca—De Beneficiis. II. 5.
CorrigeDdus est, qui peccet, et admonitione et
vi, et molliter et aspere, meliorque tarn sibi quam
alii faciendus, non sine castigatione, sed sine ira.
He, who has committed a fault, is to be corrected both by advice and by force, kindly
and harshly, and to be made better for himself as well as for another, not without chastisement, but without passion.
Seneca—De Ira. I. 14.
Maxima est factse injuries paMia, fecisse: nee
quisquam gravius adficitur, quam qui ad supplicium poenitentias traditur.
The severest punishment a man can receive
who has injured another, is to have committed
the injury; and no man is more severely punished than he who is subject to the whip of
his own repentance.
Seneca—De Ira. III. 26.
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_ Nee ulla major poena nequitiae est, quam quod
sibi et suis displicet.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness than that it is dissatisfied with itself and
its deeds.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. XLII.
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| text = Sequitur superbos ultor a tergo deus.
An avenging God closely follows the haughty.
Seneca—Hercules Furens. 385.
Minor in parvis fortuna furit,
Leviusque ferit leviora Deus.
Fortune is less severe against those of lesser
degree, and God strikes what is weak with less
power.
Seneca—Hippolytus. Act IV. 1124.
Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in
brine,
Smarting in ling'ring pickle.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 65.
Vex not his ghost: Oh; let him pass! he hates
him,
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.
King Lear. Act V. Sc. 2. "Tough world"
altered by Pope to "rough world."
Some of us will smart for it.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L.
109.
Off with his head I so much for Buckingham!
Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 3. As altered by
Collet Cibber.
A testy babe will scratch the nurse,
And presently all humbled kiss the rod.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 2. 59.
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| text = <poem>There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God
Than from theyr children to spare the rod.
Skelton—Magnyfycence. L. 1,954.
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| text = <poem>Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
When men of talents are punished, authority
is strengthened.
Tacitus—Annales. IV. 35.
