He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
We pardon familiar vices.
No crime has been without a precedent.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.