Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no 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.]

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

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.

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.]

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

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.