The beaten path is the safest. [ Coke ]

What is honorable is also safest. [ Livy ]

The wronged side is always the safest. [ Sibbes ]

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest. [ Savage ]

You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course. [ Ovid ]

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

To be silent is the safest course for the man who distrusts his own powers. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. [ Livy ]

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. [ Bailey ]

Extremes are dangerous: a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. [ Swinnock ]