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“O, why should nature build so foul a den, unless the gods delight in tragedies?”
William Shakespeare
,
Titus Andronicus
“when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”
Oscar Wilde
,
An Ideal Husband
“As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods, They kill us for their sport.”
William Shakespeare
,
King Lear
“Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.”
William Shakespeare
,
Titus Andronicus
“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
Terry Pratchett
,
Small Gods
“But isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“If gods care not for me and for my children, there is a reason for it.”
Marcus Aurelius
,
Meditations
“Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Friendship
“And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them.”
Jack London
,
White Fang
“Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.”
George R. R. Martin
,
A Game of Thrones
“The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.”
Plato
,
The Republic
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
Michel de Montaigne
,
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything, and the gods of Sakiel-Norn were no exception.”
Margaret Atwood
,
The Blind Assassin
“In a way, it's nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.”
Rick Riordan
,
The Lightning Thief
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John Green
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Titus Andronicus
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King Lear
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An Ideal Husband
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White Fang
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Paper Towns
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Small Gods
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The Lightning Thief
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Friendship
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