"Adsit Regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget æquas Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello."

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Be just: and mete to crime its condign pain; Nor use the murd’rous lash where suits the cane. — Horace, Satires, 1, 3, 117 — Cited in: Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 39