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> [The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-greeks-understood-perfectly-that-if-there-were-divine-beings-they/)

[Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/)

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> [By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amor-towles/by-their-very-nature-human-beings-are-so-capricious-so-complex-so/)

[Amor Towles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amor-towles/)

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