Diodorus Siculus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Men #Helping #Invention
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Self #Voice #Leaving
Medicine for the soul.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Medicine #Soul
Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Eye #Moon #Isis
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?' 'They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures,' Cyrus replied. 'Not my city or my treasures,' Croesus corrected him. 'Nothing there any longer belongs to me. It is you they are robbing.'
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Kings #Men #Cities
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Doors #Medicine #Soul
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Kings #Greek #Musical
Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Kings #Years #Support
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.
-- Diodorus Siculus

#Country #People #Defense

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
No one man is superior to the game.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.
A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
Conscience is a Jewish invention.
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Diodorus Siculus famous quotes

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