“Do you know,” said Maclaren, “there is one sin which is punished with unfailing certainty, and must therefore be the deadliest sin in all time. Stupidity.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 8 (pp. 62-63)
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The immediate future: Lectures delivered in Queen's Hall, London, 1911 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=VGNbAAAAMAAJ, p. 32
“If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.”
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998) ISBN 0766104168, 9780766104167
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12
Original: Prima o poi verrà la fine della punizione, l'espiazione dei peccati; quindi vivi peccando e non fare il buono: non serve a un cazzo.
Source: prevale.net
A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Preface.
"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" in The Family Album of Favorite Poems (1959) edited by P. Edward Ernest
“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.”
Variant: We are punished by our sins not for them.
Source: Love, Life and Work
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998)
Context: If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 39