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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
 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.] 
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
 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.] 
 Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
 Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
  Can read more 
 Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
 Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. 
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.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
 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.] 
 You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
 [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat read more 
 You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
 [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]