CRIME CRITICISM
Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.
You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
Law Maxim.
Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam
scelesta committi.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with
impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianub Marcellinus—Annates. XXX.
Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime
is everlasting.
Ovid—Epistoke Ex Ponto. I. 1. 64.
Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.
Where crime is taught from early years, it
becomes a part of nature.
Ovro—Heroides. IV. 25.
Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
Racine—Phedre. III. 3.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
Lord Salisbury—Speech in House of Lords,
1889.
Prosperum ac felix scelus
Virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni;
Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.
Successful crime is dignified with the name
of virtue; the good become the slaves of the
impious; might makes right; fear silences the
power of the law.
Seneca—Hercules Fwens. CCLI.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
Seneca—Hippolytus. DLIV.
Scelere velandum est scelus.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca—Hippolytus. DCCXXI.
Cui prodest scelus,
Is fecit.
He who profits by crime is guilty of it.
Seneca—Medea. D.
Ad auctores redit
Sceleris coacti culpa.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those
who impose them.
Seneca—Troades. DCCCLXX.
Qui non vetat peccare, cum possit, jubet.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
can, encourages it.
Seneca—Troades. GCXCI.
Dumque punitur scelus,
Crescit.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Seneca—Thyestes. XXXI.
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's
eyes.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 257.
If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested,
Appear before us?
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.
Julius Caesar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 63.
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| text = Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,
Art thou damn'd, Hubert.
King John. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 117.
Tremble, thou wretch,
That has within thee undivulged crimes,
Unwhipp'd of justice.
King Lear. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 51.
There shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 43.
Amici vitium ni feras, facis tuum.
If you share the crime of your friend, you
make it your own.
Syrus—Maxims.
Du repos dans le crime! ah! qui peut s'en flatter.
To be at peace in crime! ah, who can thus
flatter himself.
Voltaire—Oreste. I. 5.
La crainte suit le crime, et c'est son chatiment.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire—Semiramis. V. 1.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
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When I read rules of criticism, I immediately
inquire after the works of the author who has
written them, and by that means discover what
it is he likes in a composition.
He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 65.
