- dedecus – blemish, crime, disgrace, dishonor, dishonorable act, shame
- facina – action, bad deed, crime, deed, villainy
- malum – crime, damage, evil, injury, misdeed, misfortune
- noxa – crime, offense
- piaculum – a sin, a victim, atonement, crime, punishment, sacrifice, sin
- scelus – accursed deed, calamity, crime, evil deed, sin, wickedness
- vitium – crime, fault, vice
- actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea – The act does not make [a person] guilty unless the mind should be guilty.
- cucullus non facit monachum – The hood does not make the monk
- mater facit – Mother Does It
- natura nihil frustra facit – nature does nothing in vain
- natura non facit saltum ita nec lex – nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law
- natura non facit saltus – nature makes no leaps
- tres faciunt collegium – three makes company
- ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant – They make a desert and call it peace
- una hirundo non facit ver – one swallow does not make summer