… or aphorisms, if you like.
57.
“Everyone does it like this, why should I consider myself guilty.”
“If I don’t do it to others, sooner or later someone will do it to me.”
“Without recommendations you don’t get anywhere.”
“Every silly is right.”
“This guy is pretending handsome.”
“Let’s see if he’s really that virtuous, let’s put him to the test.”
These that I have listed are common phrases in southern Italy, but they are phrases that carry with them the whole criminal culture.
Food for thought on Italian criminal culture 
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