The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men read more

The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves

The guilty think all talk is of themselves

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the read more

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of
guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat
of his own conscience.
[Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.

Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.