For naught so vile that on the earth doth
live, but to the earth some special good doth give. Nor aught so good but,
stained from that fair use, revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. Friar Lawrence (from William
Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’)
Translation to modern English:
“There is nothing on earth so
evil that it does not provide earth with some special quality. And there is
nothing that does not turn bad if it’s put to the wrong use and abused.”
Heiko Gericher