If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on read more

There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to read more

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.