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Crime Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering…
- He has committed the crime who profits by it
- If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go…
- He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
- Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
- Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
- One crime has to be concealed by another.
- The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought…
- Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of…
- Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
- No crime has been without a precedent.
- While crime is punished it yet increases.
- The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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