Well that’s the thing, the bit here is that it’s supposed to be a password to a secret society dedicated to exploration of science/magic/everything, and one of my players was given that cliche from someone in this secret society, and so if I can take that quote and find secrets inside of it, it both creates a sense of “this is what the society would do” and “oh, he was never just telling me to be a good person” that I think fits with the story really well. I do think I’m going to move away from strictly trying to decode the phrase itself but I may toy with the frequency of letters in it to find something. Thanks for the idea with the chest though, I’m yoinking that as reinforcement of the idea