All SENECA THE YOUNGER Quotes about “Crime”

“We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?”
“The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.”
“He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.”
“If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.”
“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”
“Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.”
“One crime has to be concealed by another.”
“Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.”
“No crime has been without a precedent.”
“While crime is punished it yet increases.”
“Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.”
“Crime requires further crime to conceal it.”
“He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.”
“He has committed the crime who profits by it”
“Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.”
“The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.”
“Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.”

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