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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.
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
 The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
 [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]  
 The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
 [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.] 
 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.] 
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made read more
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.