Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

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.]

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

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.

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.]

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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.