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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.
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
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But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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.]
