It is not good to wake a sleeping lion

One should not wake a sleeping dog.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve