Quotations
Quotes:
Is that which is holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods? - Euthyphro 10
View quotes by Plato
Whom the mad would destroy, they first make gods. (Of Mao Tse-tung in 1967)
View quotes by Bernard Levin
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
View quotes by Aristotle
Whom the gods love dies young (The Double Deceiver)
View quotes by Menander
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
View quotes by Pierre Corneille
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising (Enemies of Promise)
View quotes by Cyril Connolly
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are. (Ars Amatoria)
View quotes by Ovid
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
View quotes by Hippocrates
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
View quotes by Seneca
The gods help them that help themselves.
View quotes by Aesop
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
View quotes by Terry Pratchett
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
View quotes by William Faulkner
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
View quotes by Norman Mailer
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
View quotes by Henry Miller
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
View quotes by Iris Murdoch
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
View quotes by Lin Yutang
On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.
View quotes by Polybius
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
View quotes by Diogenes
Proverbs:
The Gods Send Nuts To Those Who Have No Teeth
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