Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.