Alms Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder willspeak out of stone walls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

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— Seneca the Younger

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— Agatha Christie

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

— George Farquhar

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

— Anatole France

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— Marquis de Sade

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

— Jean Racine

There is no greater crime than desire.

— Laozi

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

— Karl Kraus