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Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being read more
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a read more
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
