#gods

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. ↗

— Ovid

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. ↗

— Plato

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ↗

— Plato

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. ↗

— Plato

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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. ↗

— Plautus

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Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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