"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

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"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

Thomas Pynchon, American Writer

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"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

James Lipton, American Educator

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"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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"My name is Linus, and I am your God."

Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"The groves were God's first temples."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

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"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"Wisdom is the most important part of happiness."

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"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

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"Who seeks shall find."

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"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

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"Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty."

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"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

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"Thy life is safe while any god saves mine."

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