Diodorus Siculus Quotes
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The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
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Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for…
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Medicine for the soul.
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Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were…
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King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men…
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Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.
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