Horace Punishment Quotations

Punishment follows close on crime.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]