Set a thief to catch a thief.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in read more

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il read more

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.

With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.