“If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.”

As quoted in Ta'Rikh-i-Jahan Gusha [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
Context: O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

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.

As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary, p. 39

Source: Blue Bloods

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Los que dejan al rey errar a sabiendas, merecen pena como traidores.
Quoted in Diccionario ilustrado de frases célebres y citas literarias (1952), by Vicente Vega.

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43

Aiel on the Three Fold Land
(15 November 1990)