When swindlers meet a genuinely honest man, they're so astonished they regard him as a greater swindler than themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings about criminals, man
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Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about criminals
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about criminals, hope
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Proverbs and old sayings about crime, criminals, sin
Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, secret
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, bad luck, bad
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, bad luck, bad
Criminals are punished, that others may be amended.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals
The bandits in the mountain are easily subjected, but it is difficult to subject the bandits in my heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about criminals, heart
Punishment awaits crime.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about punishment, crime, criminals
The act itself does not constitute a crime, unless the intent be criminal.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about criminals, crime
Justice is exercised in the proper prevention, rather than in the severe punishment, of crime.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about punishment, crime, criminals, justice
Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it? [Who might expect to derive benefit, or injury, from a crime committed? ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about prejudice, interest, crime, criminals
Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about reward, crime, criminals
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about crime, criminals, water
The crime accuses itself.
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about crime, criminals
Crime doesn't pay.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about crime, criminals
The swindler readily cheats the covetous man.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals, man
If you want to know villain, give him a stick.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals
Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals
