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 2. Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force of thunder and lightning. In human affairs there must be a clear distinction between the penalties for small and great crimes. Retribution for wrong doing must be swiftly and surely applied if greater problems are to be prevented.

 3. Blood stains can not be removed by more blood; resentment can not be removed by more resentment; resentment can be removed only by forgetting it.

 4. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.

 5. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

 6. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

 7. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

 8. Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge had stomach for them all.

 9. He hurts the good who spares the bad.

10. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.

11. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.

12. Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes.

13. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

14. If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

15. If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply.

16. If you have committed iniquity, you must expect to suffer; for vengeance with its sacred light shines upon you.

17. In punishing folly It does not further one To commit transgressions. The only thing that furthers Is to prevent transgressions.

18. It (revenge) is sweeter far than flowing honey.

19. Let the punishment be equal with the offence.

20. Many without punishment, but none without sin.

21. Nothing is more common than for great thieves to ride in triumph when small ones are punished.

22. O think not, bold man, because thy punishment is delayed, that the arm of God is weakened; neither flatter thyself with hopes that He winketh at thy doings. His eye pierceth the secrets of every heart, and He remembereth them for ever...

23. Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

24. Punishment should not be meted out in anger. It must fulfil the purpose of preventing unreasonable excesses by others.

25. Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

26. Revenge - A debt in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

27. Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

28. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

29. Revenge is barren: its delight is murder, and its satiety, despair.

30. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

31. Revenge upon a wrong-doer brings only one day's pleasure. For him who bears with patience evil from another, there will be praise until the world shall end.

32. Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils.

33. Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

34. Severities should be dealt out all at once, that by their suddenness they may give less offence; benefits should be handed out drop by drop, that they may be relished the more.

35. The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.

36. The divine wrath is slow indeed in vengeance, but it makes up for its tardiness by the severity of the punishment.

37. The man against whom you feel anger in your heart Is not to be admonished by mere words. First, subdue him by force, And then use your weapon of words.

38. The people are not afraid of death. Why, then, threaten them with death?... There is always the master executioner (Heaven) who kills. To undertake executions for the master executioner is like hewing wood for the master carpenter. Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes injuring his own hands.

39. The root of revenge, is in the weakness of the Soul; the most abject and timorous are the most addicted to it.

40. The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

41. The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

42. There is nothing so easy as to revenge an offence; but nothing is so honourable as to pardon it.

43. There is only one thing worse than Injustice, and that is Justice without her sword in her hand. When Right is not Might, it is Evil.

44. There's small revenge in words, but words may be greatly revenged.

45. Think not thou art revenged of thine enemy when thou slayest him; thou puttest him beyond thy reach, thou givest him quiet, and takest from thyself all means of hurting him.

46. To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

47. Vengeance comes not openly, either upon you or any wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

48. We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

49. We will not punish a man because he hath offended, but that he may offend no more; nor does punishment ever look to the past, but to the future; for it is not the result of passion, but that the same thing be guarded against in time to come.

50. Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.