Full Idea
We have robbers by the thousand, although they have the penalty of death before their eyes.
Gist of Idea
We have the death penalty, but still have thousands of robbers
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.86)
Book Reference
Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.104