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“The rubbell and shrubs being very dry, did fall on a light fire and burned me on every side. I could see no remedy how I might save my selfe, and in such a case it was not best for me to stand still but fortune was favourable towards me, perhaps to reserve me for more dangers.” Apuleius, The Golden Asse · vivid
“I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame: I dreaded it more than death, more than the crime, more than all the world.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02 · insight
“The conscience of the guilty would revenge the innocent.” His prediction was true, and is being daily verified.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02 · insight
“Benvenuto, do as thou art wont, and fear not!” Then, on the instant, I changed the whole course of my plans.” Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini · insight
“Take your good arms and come with me; obey me to the letter; have no other thought, for I am now determined to put in my appearance.” Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini · precept
In Carthage, Augustine recalls Alypius wrongly accused when he is caught with a hatchet while a real thief steals lead, and God ensures the architect and a witness reveal the true culprit.
Yet thence didst Thou with a most strong and most merciful hand pluck him, and taughtest him to have confidence not in himself, but in Thee. But this was after. But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter. So was that also, that when he was yet studying under me at Carthage, and was thinking over at mid-day in the market-place what he was to say by heart (as scholars use to practise),…
After discovering Pagolo and Caterina, Cellini rages, threatens to kill them, drives them out, and learns they will use an accusation to sue him, leading to a court summons.
charging the lighter articles, to the best of my ability, upon myself and servants; yet it was with great and heavy reluctance that I looked forward to such a departure. I had shut myself up alone in a little study. My young men were advising me to fly; but I told them that it would be well for me to meditate this step in solitude, although I very much inclined to their opinion. Indeed, I reasoned that if I could es…
After the Countess dies, Rousseau recounts stealing a pink and silver ribbon belonging to Mademoiselle Pontal, falsely accusing the cook Marion, and the Count de la Roque’s judgment that guilty conscience punishes the innocent.
I went two or three times, without being able to speak to him, and as I was easily repulsed, returned no more; whether I did wrong will be seen hereafter. Would I had finished what I have to say of my living at Madam de Vercellis's. Though my situation apparently remained the same, I did not leave her house as I had entered it: I carried with me the long and painful remembrance of a crime; an insupportable weight o…
Rousseau explains how, out of fear of shame and public exposure, he falsely accused Marion of giving him a ribbon he meant to give her, and reflects on guilt, regret, and lifelong aversion to lying.
I should not fulfill the purpose of this undertaking, did I not, at the same time, divulge my interior disposition, and excuse myself as far as is conformable with truth. Never was wickedness further from my thoughts, than in that cruel moment; and when I accused the unhappy girl, it is strange, but strictly true, that my friendship for her was the immediate cause of it. She was present to my thoughts; I formed my …
Aquinas argues that if an accuser fails to prove his indictment, he must undergo retaliation because accusation places the accused in danger of severe punishment, except when the false charge was made through just error or ignorance.
FOURTH ARTICLE [II-II, Q. 68, Art. 4] Whether an Accuser Who Fails to Prove His Indictment Is Bound to the Punishment of Retaliation? Objection 1: It would seem that the accuser who fails to prove his indictment is not bound to the punishment of retaliation. For sometimes a man is led by a just error to make an accusation, in which case the judge acquit the accuser, as stated in Decret. II, qu. iii. [*Append. Grat.…
Pretending the friar’s “friend” harasses her, the lady confesses, bribes him with coins, makes him promise masses and counsel, and then repeatedly feeds the friar false complaints to keep controlling the man’s access.
such advances, and be flattered to attract his fond and assiduous regard, which to me, who am in no wise inclined to encourage it, is but a most grievous molestation." Having thus spoken, the lady bowed her head as if she were ready to weep. The holy friar was at no loss to apprehend who it was of whom she spoke; he commended her virtuous frame, firmly believing that what she said was true, and promised to take such…
The pilgrim bribes the authorities to prove Aldobrandino’s innocence by capturing Tedaldo’s brothers, who confess they murdered Tedaldo under a mistaken belief, and the pilgrim then secures reassurance for Madonna Ermellina.
be of good cheer; assuring him that, before the next day was done, he should be certified beyond all manner of doubt of his deliverance; and so he left him. On quitting the prison the pilgrim hied him forthwith to the signory, and being closeted with a knight that was in charge, thus spoke:--"My lord, 'tis the duty of all, and most especially of those who hold your place, zealously to bestir themselves that the trut…
Apuleius is consigned to daily wood-hauling under a brutal boy who beats and wounds him, burns him with a coal-in-rubble trick, and then falsely claims Apuleius “willingly” fell into the fire.
How Apuleius was made a common Asse to fetch home wood, and how he was handled by a boy. After that I was thus handled by horses, I was brought home againe to the Mill, but behold fortune (insatiable of my torments) had devised a new paine for me. I was appointed to bring home wood every day from a high hill, and who should drive me thither and home again, but a boy that was the veriest hangman in all the world, who…