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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

The gods help them that help themselves.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

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.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.