31 quotes
“The man who does ill must suffer ill.”
— Aeschylus
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”
— King Solomon
“As she has done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against the Lord.”
— Jeremiah
“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer
“Harm watch, harm catch.”
— Unknown
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
— William Shakespeare
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
— Paul the Apostle
“The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”
— Sextus Empiricus
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
— Omar Khayyam
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses”
— Heraclitus
“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is found that place on earth where abiding one may escape from the consequences of one's evil deed.”
“He who digs a pit shall fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.”
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
— Gautama Buddha
“An evil deed does not turn to cream right away, but like fire covered with ashes, it follows the fool, smoldering.”
“When anger rises think of the consequences.”
— Confucius
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves.”
“Heaven's net is wide; coarse are the meshes, yet nothing slips through.”
— Lao Tzu
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not even in the clefts of the mountains is there a spot where a man may be freed from an evil deed.”
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; if well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not by entering the clefts of mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where one may be free from the consequences of an evil deed.”
“The arrow once loosed from the bow does not return; so a word, once spoken, does not come back.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“The deed cannot be undone; what is done is never lost, but comes back to find the doer.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves”
“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is there a spot in the whole world where one may escape from the fruit of an evil action.”
“The act itself is its own reward, and the punishment of the act is the act itself.”
— Seneca
“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.”
— Solomon
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”
“He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.”
“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”
— Hesiod
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