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1 " Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - " look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die before him. Lead two sheep to the butcher's, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy. But man - man, who God created in his own image - man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to love his neighbour - man, to whom God has given a voice to express his thoughts - what is his first cry when he hears his fellowman is saved? A blasphemy. Honour to man, this masterpiece of nature, this king of the creation! "
2 " Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Critic as Artist
3 " Like other corrupt people, he would never realize that his punishment was in missing out on what he didn’t know he could have. "
― Guy Mankowski , An Honest Deceit
4 " And don’t miss Frank Otto, the world’s most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn’t commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink! "
― Sara Gruen , Water for Elephants
5 " A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. "
― Robin S. Sharma , The Mastery Manual
