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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
 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.] 
 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.] 
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
 Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere 
desire of occupation.
 [Lat., Solent occupationis spe read more 
 Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere 
desire of occupation.
 [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta 
committi.] 
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
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.
 It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
 [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]  
 It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
 [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] 
 Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
 [It., Non nella pena,
  Nel delitto read more 
 Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
 [It., Non nella pena,
  Nel delitto e la infamia.]