“He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.”
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
“He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.”
Pierre Corneille The Death of Pompey
Qui punit le vaincu ne craint point le vainqueur.
Photin, act I, scene i.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
“He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Swer guotes wîbes minne hât,
der schamt sich aller missetât.
"Waz sol ein man, der niht engert", line 11; translation from Henry John Chaytor The Troubadours (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912) p. 128.
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Child of Europe" (1946)
Daylight (1953)
Context: He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.You can accuse them of any deeds you like.
Their reply will always be silence.Their empty faces swim out of the deep dark.
You can fill them with any features desired.Proud of dominion over people long vanished,
Change the past into your own, better likeness.
