The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.