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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
Henry Fielding
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
William Shakespeare
One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
Hitopadesa
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Ellen Key
