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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.


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By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
UNKNOWN Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
LEONARD PEIKOFF As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
ANONYMOUS A verdict of guilty means that Mr. Wilson spends the rest of his life in prison. He dies there.
LOUIS JORDAN The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL This I do partly mentally and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impressions and establish t...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
BEN HECHT Every guilty person is his own hangman.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forge...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
GEORGE SAND The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI This was an unbelievable tragedy for the entire family... his grief is immeasurable. There is no gre...
DAVID ROTH The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to Go...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
MARY ASTELL A man after his own heart.
BIBLE Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty.
TOBA BETA No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
ERIC HOFFER Now the commissioner, on his own, is announcing a new punishment, and that would be an additional pu...
GERALD LEFCOURT Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the inj...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY A wise man need only the guidance of his own heart.
TYLER J. HEBERT Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inhe...
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non spo...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man...
CARL LOFMARK He is absolutely not guilty and did not strike that woman. The last thing this man would want to do ...
ORLANDO GONZALEZ A coward's heart is no prize, but the man of valor deserves his shining helmet.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linki...
PAUL BRUNTON Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. H...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS No one disputes his academic prowess, his mental power. He's a very smart man, ... But through all t...
HARRY REID Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his...
VLADIMIR LENIN Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it...
HENRY MILLER There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is h...
ARISTOTLE No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn...
OSCAR WILDE At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by...
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE Basically it is a very politically incorrect book written by a white man trying to seize his own int...
WILLIAM STYRON Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri...
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The first thought of mind at the first sight on any object in an unpretentious heart is likely to be...
ANUJ SOMANY The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER This man has been humiliated beyond belief by his own hand.
LEE BLALACK A man knows who his heart truly belongs to. Nothing any girl; no matter what she looks like, can eve...
STEVE MURPHY A fanatic is a deeply religious man with no love in his heart
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Your verdict will be "Guilty" or "Not Guilty." Your job is not to find innocence.
RUSSELL R. LEGGETT Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature o...
SYLVAN BARNET This is exactly what the judges have feared all along. That the trial wouldn't be complete and there...
EDGAR CHEN It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own proportion and standard.
UNKNOWN The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any...
SUZY KASSEM No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judg...
JAMES MADISON There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM This is a political verdict that will be annulled by the appeals court. This verdict will go into th...
AMIR SALEM This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
SAINT AUGUSTINE This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa...
JEREMY TAYLOR It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishm...
ERNST JüNGER A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own ...
HIPPOCRATES No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
NAPOLEON HILL There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own ...
THOMAS MERTON Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED The measure of a man is not what is in his paycheck, but what is in his heart.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the arch...
GEORGE D. BOARDMAN At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...
AYN RAND The verdict is based basically on the allegations of one man, a former driver for Anwar, and ... he ...
KASRA NAJI That young man will either be killed by you or he will spend the rest of his life in prison in a cou...
DAVID BAUGH Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a m...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The good thoughts that he appreciates of others is actually his own thinking that was buzzing and wh...
ANUJ SOMANY The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his...
THIRUVALLUVAR Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY In the first trial, wrong evidence went to the jury. It should not have, as confirmed by the court o...
RICHARD AUGER A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disa...
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JUVENAL Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
JUVENAL What is the use of your pedigrees?
JUVENAL Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
JUVENAL Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
JUVENAL It is difficult not to write satire.
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JUVENAL Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
JUVENAL Revenge is a dish best served cold
JUVENAL Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL A healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
JUVENAL It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
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JUVENAL Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL Be gentle with the young.
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JUVENAL Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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JUVENAL All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price
JUVENAL All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee
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JUVENAL Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
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JUVENAL difficile est saturam non scribere
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JUVENAL The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselv...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse thi...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accompli...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpib...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; Tha...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
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