Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.