The thief is no danger to the beggar.

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

It is wit to pick a lock, and steal a horse, but wisdom to let it alone.

The greater the man, the greater the crime.

There is a black sheep in every flock.

It’s no crime to steal from a thief.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Steal a bell with one’s ears covered.

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.