Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently. - Augustine of Hippo

Venite fratres, si vultis ut inseramini in vite;
Dolor est cum vos videmus praecisos ita jacere.
Numerate sacerdotes vel ab ipsa Petri sede;
Et in ordine illo Patrum quis cui successit videte.
Ipsa est petra, quam non vincunt superbae inferorum portae. (PL 43:30 ).

Even then [at the time of Peter's speech in Acts 2] it was the last days; how much more so now, when there must still be as much time till the end of the world as has passed since the ascension of the Lord! We do not know the end of the world, because it is not for us to know the times or the seasons that the Father has set in his power; but we know that, like the apostles, we live in the last times, in the last days, in the last hour. Those who lived after the apostles and before us were more in what we call the last times, and we ourselves are in them even more than they; those who will come after us will be so much more, till one gets to those who will be, if one may say so, the last of the last, and finally till that day, the very last, of which the Lord means to speak when he said, "And I will raise him up on the last day". How far are we from that day? That is an impenetrable secret.

The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.