Famous Quotes - Tags - Retribution

  • Evil people will suffer from other evil-doers. More
  • For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. More
  • For hostile word let hostile word be paid. More
  • For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. More
  • Fortune acquired improperly will be followed by misfortune. More
  • Good and evil are repaid in kind, just as shadows follow bodies, and echoes follow sounds. More
  • He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the... More
  • Heaping glowing coals on another person’s head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing... More
  • If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one’s duty toward one’s... More
  • O descend as a dove or
    A furious papa or a mild engineer: but descend.’ More
  • One who accumulates goodness will encounter goodness, and one who accumulates evil will encounter... More
  • Plant melons, harvest melons; plant beans, harvest beans. More
  • The man who does ill must suffer ill. More
  • Those who do good will be honored by the spirits; those who do evil will be punished by Heaven. More
  • Virtue is the root of good fortune, and evil the harbinger of calamity. More
  • We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a... More

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