It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
The die has been cast.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.