Fortuna miserrima tuta est; / Nam timor eventus deterioris abest —Let others seek security.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Councils of State and the ministers, presided [Pg 182] over by him, continued their labors to ameliorate the administration of the realm, to embellish Naples, to encourage discoveries, to unite the learned in a literary corps.
— from Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

This privilege of stealing the horse, while the meaner-born might not even look over the hedge, was claimed by the sons and the daughters of the old noblesse, who condescended to grace the court of Napoléon III., with a cynicism worthy of the most libertine traditions of the ancien régime; and neither the Empress nor the Emperor did anything to discountenance the claim.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam