Clever tyrants are never punished. [ Voltaire ]

More men are terrified than punished. [ Proverb ]

A madman is punished by his own madness. [ Law ]

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart,
How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart!
Those escape thy anger who refuse thy sway,
And those are punished most who most obey. [ Prior ]

A slip of the tongue ought not to be rashly punished. [ Law ]

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

Whoso is not dutiful to a good mother, shall be punished by an ill step-mother. [ Proverb ]

In love, it is as it was with the thieves of Sparta: only the awkward are punished.

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. [ Seneca ]

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]