Quote by William Shakespeare

“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...”

— Anonymous

“I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate…

— Demosthenes

“As the generations pass they grow worse. A time will come when they have grown so wicked that they will worship power; might will…

— Greek myth on the Iron Age

“Nicia: God send him the plague! Timoteo: Why? Nicia: So he'll get it!”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and death their…

— William Shakespeare

“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew very well…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh brings cities…

— S.U. Pacat

“Aeonist teachings say that no race is clean of such ignorance or violence. When faced with the threat of such things, we should strive…

— Ruthanna Emrys

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“After they had lost the war with Sparta the Athenians looked for someone to blame. They blamed the old teacher, Socrates. Being a rather…

— Terry Deary

“LARS Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine…

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

“All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must…

— George R.R. Martin