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 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.] 
 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.] 
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made read more
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
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.
 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.]