Pastoral Resources

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.