The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.