The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

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François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his Criticisms of the Catholic Church and slavery, Voltaire was...

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…the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

—Randy K. Milholland

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

—Publilius Syrus

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

—Maximilien Robespierre

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

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