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Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
 Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
 [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
  Ch' read more 
 Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
 [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.] 
 But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
 Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
  Have read more 
 But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
 Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
  Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. 
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
 By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
 [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]  
 By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
 [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] 
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
 I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for read more 
 I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months
in which I rationalized.