Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Poverty is the mother of crime. - Marcus Aurelius

Poverty is the mother of crime. – Marcus Aurelius

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – Marcus Aurelius

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius

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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. – Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson

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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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