One can give advice comfortably from a safe port

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Great souls endure in silence.