"For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes."

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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson