Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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