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| 8 | 681 | View more quotes about thus">Thus it was appropriate, even imperative, that she be punished. |
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| 8 | 678 | "Forgive me, Master". |
| 8 | 679 | Phoebe's zeal to see an errant slave punished, and suitably, was a quite natural one, of course. |
| 8 | 680 | The girl was a slave, and had not been pleasing. |
| 8 | 681 | Thus it was appropriate, even imperative, that she be punished. |
| 8 | 682 | More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions. |
| 8 | 683 | A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently. |
| 8 | 684 | A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration. |