A Quote by Tacitus

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Tacitus

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

Abraham Lincoln

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

Patrick Leahy

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Alan Greenspan

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Theodore Roosevelt

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

Prentice Mulford

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Susan B. Anthony

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

Ice T

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.

Paul Greengrass

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Harvey V. Fineberg

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

David Ogilvy

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

Margaret Thatcher

To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

Donald Faison

Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

Frank Abagnale

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