Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.