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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever...

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

Quote by Aeschylus about god, pain, time

The gods help them that help themselves.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Quote by Aesop about god, help

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...

Quote by Aristotel about religion, saints, god

Men create gods after their own image, not only with...

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

Quote by Aristotel about people, man, life

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Quote by Aristotel about faith, joke

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to...

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about humanity, end, time, life

We must conceive of this whole universe as one...

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about man

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Quote by Bill Gates about mercy, evolution, question, day, world, people

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know...

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Quote by Herodotus

Washing your car constitutes a rain dance to the raining...

Washing your car constitutes a rain dance to the raining gods.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, rain, dance

Rain on a golf course is Gods way of telling you that...

Rain on a golf course is Gods way of telling you that you're playing too slow.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about rain

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept...

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about conscience, dream, order, moral, rightness, man

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender...

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Quote by Jules Laforgue about death, smoke, time

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

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

Quote by James Maxwell Anderson about drugs, man, god

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat...

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Quote by Stevie Wonder about life, fight, defeat

May we answer Gods call, on behalf of peace, so that...

May we answer Gods call, on behalf of peace, so that freedom's bells may once again, ring across the east.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about nation, peace

How can we fight against the Gods when in every palm...

How can we fight against the Gods when in every palm rises a church of the eternal pray?

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about destiny, pray, fight

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