Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.