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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."
"Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?"
"Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure."
"The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary."
"Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity."
"Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves."
"In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me."
"Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves."
"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."
"Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise."
"We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’."
"If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made."
"The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist."
"Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief."
"What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities."
"Comparison is the thief of all joy."
"If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity."
"Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.""
"The great thieves lead away the little thief."
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
