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What’s done can’t be undone.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.