Wickedness is its own punishment.

  • -- Francis Quarles 夸尔斯

恶有恶报。

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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

这也是教会教训的一部分,就是世界是在某时被造,起于某时,因其邪恶而消灭。

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

惩罚也许能使我们服从上帝给我们的命令,但充其量也只能教会我们服从权威,而不是增强我们自尊的自我控制。

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

这是一个无法否认的事实:别人的邪恶变成了我们自己的邪恶,因为它在我们心中点燃了某种邪恶。

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

只有大自然才知道如何使过错与应得的惩罚成正比例。