The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Tales of a Consulting Detective

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.’”

The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.

‘Le mauvais goût mène au crime.’

Bad taste leads to crime

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!”

There are no fools so inconvenient as those who have wit

‘Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen.’

We are used to people mocking what they do not understand

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.