All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.