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- See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
- If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?
- Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it…
- It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which…
- To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
- 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
- The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
- Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with…
- So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to…
- ...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
- Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs…
- Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the…
- You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the…
- Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped…
- Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed…
- The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
- Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped…
- Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises…
- Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But…
- I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle