There is a God to punish and avenge. [ Schiller ]

The great thieves punish the little ones. [ Proverb ]

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. [ Proverb ]

The laws undertake to punish only overt acts. [ Montesquieu ]

A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. [ Ovid ]

To punish is merely human, but to forgive is divine. [ P. von Winter ]

When God will punish, he will first take away the understanding. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them. [ Tyrius Maximus ]

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. [ Frederick the Great ]

To punish and not prevent, is to labour at the pump, and leave open the leak. [ Proverb ]

Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly. [ William Shakespeare ]

Louis XVI knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. [ Tilly ]

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All- Seeing One will discover and punish it. [ Rivarol ]

Hannah More said to Horace Walpole: If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. [ John Bate ]

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]