Whom the gods love dies young.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Whom the gods love dies young.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

The man who runs may fight again.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Bad company corrupts good character.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Men are taught virtue and a love of independence by living in the country.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Know thyself means this that you get acquainted with what you know and what you can do.

A handsome person with perverted will is a fine craft thats handled without skill.

Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.