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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
Punishment
Italian Proverb

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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Sleep
Isidore Ducasse, Comte De Lautreamont

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There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
Glory
Lope de Vega

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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Catholicism
Madonna

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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Pain
Joseph De Maistre

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Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
Food and Eating
Tyrius Maximus

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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Opera
Hannah More

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Punishment
Friedrich Nietzsche

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Leaders and Leadership
Ovid

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Great thieves punish little ones.
Crime and Criminals
Proverb

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.
Fear
Proverb

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Wickedness is its own punishment.
Evil
Francis Quarles

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Many without punishment, none without sin.
Punishment
John Ray

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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Laziness
Jules Renard

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
Work
George Sand

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.
Law and Lawyers
Saying

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Death and Dying
Seneca

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Punishment
Seneca

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Nature
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Lies and Lying
The Talmud

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them
Law and Lawyers
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.
Fear
Source Unknown

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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Punishment
Voltaire

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Prayer
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun