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He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
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.]
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.
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.]