"The great would not think themselves demigods if……" — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

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• The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. — Simone de Beauvoir
• All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous… — Mikhail Bakunin
• [The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods. — Thomas Jefferson
• "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like… — Janet Morris
• When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously. — Nalo Hopkinson
• In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues… — Nelson Mandela
• We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. — Soseki Natsume
• The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human. — David Coverdale
• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom… — William Shakespeare
• Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king… — Edward Thorndike

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