The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant…

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended i…

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element…

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that 'it's not the crime, but the cover-up.' But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. …