Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere
desire of occupation.
[Lat., Solent occupationis spe read more

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere
desire of occupation.
[Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta
committi.]

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.]

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

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

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]

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.]

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.

With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Set a thief to catch a thief.