Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.