sed metus in vita poenarum pro male factis est insignibus insignis, scelerisque luella' carcer et horribilis de saxo iactu deorsum, verbera carnifices robur pix lammina taedae; quae tamen etsi absunt, at mens sibi conscia factis praemetuens adhibet stimulos torretque flagellis, nec videt interea qui terminus esse malorum possit nec quae sit poenarum denique finis, atque eadem metuit magis haec ne in morte gravescant.
But in this life there is fear of punishment for evil deeds, fear as notorious as the deeds are notorious, and atonement for crime'prison, and the horrible casting down from the Rock, stripes, executioners, condemned cell, pitch, red-hot plates, firebrands; and even if these are absent, yet the guilty conscience, terrified before anything can come to pass, applies the goad and scorches itself with whips, and meanwhile does not see where can be the end to its miseries or the final limit to its punishment, and fears that these same afflictions may become heavier after death.
final_alignments\Lucretius_De_Rerum_Natura_Book3.json