Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias —If you were in my place, you would think differently.
— 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.

But most of all I marvel that men can despise thieves, whereas in many points you be like Christ himself; for Christ had no dwelling place no more than you—Christ at length was caught, and so will you—he went to hell and so will you.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

You speak like a man who is quite well, but if you were in my place, you would soon change your way of speaking.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

By fits and starts they are warm in many pursuits; yet this warmth, never concentrated into perseverance, soon exhausts itself; exhaled by its own heat, or meeting with some other fleeting passion, to which reason has never given any specific gravity, neutrality ensues.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

You may be permitted to recover and live many days on the face of the earth; and, which is more probable, you may be taken away, and cut off in the flower of your youth.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Would it might please your Grace, On our entreaties, to amend your fault!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The old Xicotencatl, therefore, again addressed Cortes: "In order, Malinche, that you may have a still clearer proof of our good feeling towards you, and to show you how glad we are to do anything which we imagine may please you, we have resolved to give you our daughters in marriage, that they may have children by you.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Let me live, Where I may please your fears, if not your trust.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Would that it were in my power; you do not know how I love you, but you will know in eternity, where we shall enjoy each other's love fully and completely.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

“I hope you cannot suspect me of a design to abuse your confidence, to win, if it were in my power, your daughter’s affections, without your knowledge, surreptitiously, clandestinely.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

That is a secret I learned from Colonel Morley, to whom I must present you,—the subtlest intellect under the quietest manner.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The craftiness of this manoeuvre will prove a fine support to you in the employment of any means which it may please you to choose from your arsenal, for the object of subduing your wife.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2 by Honoré de Balzac

The second conjecture, that the writer of these books might have gathered up oral traditions of the earlier generations and incorporated them into his writings, is more plausible; yet a careful examination of the writings themselves does not confirm this theory.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

But your mouth fast closed for ever, And obey without a question: Think whatever it may please you; Never speak without permission."
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

"No," he says; "no man can win praise in a life of ease; and I will not hold back, but will follow you gladly, my sweet friend, whithersoever it may please you.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Kuskop replied: ‘Herr Senator, if you were in my position, you would not give him away yourself.’
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann