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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
Nel delitto e la infamia.]
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.]
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]