Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.