Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
(Men) do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry. Men do not think a thief to be beneath judicial cognizance, even though his theft may have had the excuse that it was to satisfy his appetite when he was hungry: how much more shall the adulterer not escape who gratuitously, and without any necessity of nature, violates his neighbour's wife!