You fiend! It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

ἀλ’ ὦ κακόδαιμον ἀνάγκη μεγάλων γνωμῶν καὶ διανοιῶν ἴσα καὶ τὰ ῥήματα τίκτειν.

Aristophanes, Frogs 1059.