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.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Crime is a product of social excess.

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]

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.

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.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

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.