Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.
Execution is everything.