Ovid Punishment Quotations

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]