A crafty knave needs no broker.

A crafty knave needs no broker.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]

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

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

Crime is a product of social excess.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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.]

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.