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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. - Pierre C

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. – Horace

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