If grass is greener on the other side, why wait at this side of the fence?

to leaders - people are emotional and you can take them for a ride as long as they continue to be gullible

difficile est saturam non scribere

They tugged plans and ambitions out their asses and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]