It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]

It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]

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.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il read more

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of read more

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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.

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.