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

God, Gods, Evil

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

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

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"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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

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"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

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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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"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

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"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

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