Originally Posted by Ragitsu
Is the corollary of "No good deed goes unpunished." (i.e., "No bad deed goes unrewarded.") at all true?

Hmm, rather “crime doesn’t pay”, though I’m sure it sometimes does. And, anyway, “virtue is its own reward” grin.

EDIT: The closest idiom I can currently think of to your original corollary is “the devil gets all the best tunes” but that’s not really the same.

Last edited by The_Red_Queen; 01/09/22 06:35 PM.
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