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Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

~Adela Florence Nicolson

Topics: Drink Fight Gods Judged Love Men Nor Quality Serve Should Sin Skin Think Thought Tint Vintage Way

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The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Altar Around Asia Came Center Cultural Cures Defeating Famous Giants God Gods Great Library Medicine Mediterranean Minor Monumental Olympian People Sculptures Seeking Spectacular Temple Theater Vast

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For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Against Gods Man Mark Misfortune Rail Upright Wise

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

~Aeschylus

Topics: Any Except Forever Gods Live Pain Through Time Who Without

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Death Desire Does Gifts Gods Only

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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

~Aeschylus

Topics: Apart Gods His Length Lifetime Pain Who Whole Without

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The gods help them that help themselves.

~Aesop

Topics: Gods Help Them Themselves

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Earthly False Gods Humor Laughed Nothing Off Only

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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: After Assumptions Begins Conflict Down Except God Gods Other Science Universe Who

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It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Alive Almost Aware Become Behind Belief Gods Ideas Least Some Stories Way

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