Nature and wisdom always say the same.
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)