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Gods Quotes by Lucretius
- ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape…
- Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
- Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
- Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they…
- We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
- Fear is the mother of all gods.
- For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples…
- Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
- Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of… — Charles A. Beard
- Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. — Aeschylus
- Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus
- Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? — Aeschylus
- Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He… — David Bowie
- Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods.… — Dan Brown
- When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I… — Leon Battista Alberti
- And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. — Samuel Butler
- Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell