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Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
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.]
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
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.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.