Atque ego scio plerosque reos alicuius facinoris postulatos, si fuisse quaepiam causae probarentur, hoc uno se tamen abunde defendisse, vitam suam procul ab huiusmodi sceleribus abhorrere nec id sibi obesse debere, quod videantur quaedam fuisse ad maleficiendum invitamenta; non enim omnia quae fieri potuerint pro factis habenda, rerum vices varias evenire; certum indicem cuiusque animum esse; qui semper eodem ingenio ad virtutem vel malitiam moratus firmum argumentum est accipiendi criminis aut respuendi.
And yet I know that many men named as defendants on a criminal charge, even when it could be proved that possible motives existed, have fully cleared themselves by this one argument: that their way of life was wholly inconsistent with such crimes, and it should not count against them if there seemed to have been certain factors tempting them to do wrong. Not everything that might be a fact ought to be considered fact, and different situations can have different outcomes. The sure clue is each mans mind: if its constant nature accustoms it to do good or evil, that is a powerful argument for inferring or rejecting a criminal charge.
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