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.]

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to read more

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for read more

I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months
in which I rationalized.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in read more

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.