Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Creta an carbone notandi?—Are they to be marked with chalk or charcoal? Hor.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. 5 Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. Emerson.

Crime cannot be hindered by punishment, but only by letting no man grow up a criminal. Ruskin.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. Racine.

Crimen læsæ majestatis—Crime of high treason.

Crimen quos inquinat, æquat—Crime puts those on an equal footing whom it defiles.

Crimes generally punish themselves. Goldsmith. 10

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. Hare.

Crimina qui cernunt aliorum, non sua cernunt, / Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi—Those who see the faults of others, but not their own, are wise for others and fools for themselves. Pr.

Crimine ab uno / Disce omnes—From the base character of one learn what they all are. Virg.