WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
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What pleasures habitual wrongdoing provides for men without principle or sense of shame, when they have escaped punishment and found themselves given a free hand!
[O consuetudo peccandi, quantam habes iucunditatem improbis et audacibus, cum poena afuit et licentia consecuta est!]
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In Verrem [Against Verres; Verrine Orations], Action 3, ch. 76 / sec. 176 (3.76.176) (70 BC) [tr. Greenwood (1928)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations
What pleasures habitual wrongdoing provides for men without principle or sense of shame, when they have escaped punishment and found themselves given a free hand! [O consuetudo peccandi, quantam habes iucunditatem improbis et audacibus, cum poena afuit et licentia consecuta est!] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: O you habit of sinning,…