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If you share your friend's crime you make it your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about crime, criminals

It's a crime if you get caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about crime, criminals

If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about crime, criminals, lie, work

It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about punishment, crime, criminals, shame

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverbs and old sayings about crime, criminals

Death is nothing and pain is nothing, but cowardice is crime and disgrace, the greatest punishment.

Proverbs and old sayings about cowardice, punishment, crime, criminals, nothing, pain, death

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

You don't put robbers to work in a bank.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about criminals, bankers, work, americans

Conquerors are kings; the beaten are bandits.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about criminals

The conquerors are kings; the defeated are bandits.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about criminals

Even criminals have their uses; they keep sleepyheads awake.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about criminals

If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.

Proverbs and old sayings about criminals

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Proverbs and old sayings English about criminals, society, good, good luck, man

To rob a robber is not robbing.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criminals

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criminals, war, peace

Nothing looks more like an honest man than a villain.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criminals, nothing, man

The villain that becomes rich knows neither friends nor family.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criminals, family, wealth

Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you.

Proverbs and old sayings French about criminals

No villain like the conscientious villain.

Proverbs and old sayings German about criminals