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Punishment Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Punishment is justice for the unjust.
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
- Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
- Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before…
- It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be…
- The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
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- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
- In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
- It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter… — Albert Einstein