The superfluous is very necessary.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?