Large bodies are far more likely to err than individuals. The passions are inflamed by sympathy; the fear of punishment and the sense of shame are diminished by partition. Every day we see men do for their faction what they would die rather than do for themselves. Macaulay.
Large charity doth never soil, but only whiten, soft white hands. Lowell.
Large fortunes are all founded either on occupation 15 of land, or usury, or taxation of labour. Ruskin.
Large fortunes cannot be made by the work of any one man's hands or head. Ruskin.
Large masses of mankind, in every society of our Europe, are no longer capable of living at all by the things which have been. Carlyle.
Largitio fundum non habet—Giving has no bottom. Pr.
Las manos blancas no ofenden—White hands cannot harm one. Sp. Pr.
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate—Abandon 20 all hope, ye who enter here. Dante.
Lascivi soboles gregis—The offspring of a wanton herd. Hor.
Lass das Vergangne vergangen sein—Let what is past be past. Goethe, Faust to Margaret in the end.