Max Muller Quotes

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.