| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Punishment |
| | | A monarch should be slow to punish, swift to reward. Ovid. | 1 |
| Birchen twigs break no ribs. | 2 |
| It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the guilty. Publius Syrus. | 3 |
| It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. Ovid. | 4 |
| Let them who have deserved their punishment bear it patiently. Ovid. | 5 |
| It is seldom that punishment though lame of foot has failed to overtake a villain. Horace. | 6 |
| Man punishes the action, but God the intention. | 7 |
| Many without punishment, none without sin. | 8 |
| Punishment comes slowly, but it comes. German. | 9 |
| The worst punishment of all is that in the court of his own conscience, no guilty man is acquitted. Juvenal. | 10 |
| When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. Tacitus. | 11 |
| Who punishes one threatens a hundred. French. | 12 | | |
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