“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
Variant: Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.
Source: The Godfather
“So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.”
— Thomas Hobbes, book Leviathan
The Second Part, Chapter 27, p. 151
Leviathan (1651)
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