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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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To die for ones country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. – Pierre Corneille

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Death
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Pierre Corneille
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Punishment
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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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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key

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Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler

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

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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. – Albert Einstein

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Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

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