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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
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.]
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.]
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.