The other day I was translating Julius Caesar's account of the wars in Gaul, and I ran into this sentence: "For the immortal gods, in order that those whose crimes they would punish may lament their reversal of fortune all the more bitterly, sometimes grant them greater short-term prosperity and a longer wait before their nemesis." Needless to say, it was hard to translate. But it's worth learning Latin just so you can discover a gem like that. (I couldn't help thinking of the people in charge of the United States.)