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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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