Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Guilt
category

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Category:
Guilt

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Guilt

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him. – John Flavel

Category:
Guilt

He who flees judgment confesses his guilt. – Anon.

Category:
Guilt

Random Quotes

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe thats the reason Ive been around so long. – Bobby Vinton

Category:
Education

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words ice queen attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. Theres this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. – Kristin Scott Thomas

Category:
Home

O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. – Source Unknown

Category:
Tools

Im not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. – Joan Didion

Category:
strength