"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."

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Source : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 2 (1776 - 1788)

Edward Gibbon

#Rome Quotes #People Quotes #History Quotes

“Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.”

Source : "The Religion of the Machine Age". Book by Dora Russell, 1983.
“Let things taste the way they are.”
“Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.”
“When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .”
“Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”
“God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)”
“Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.”
“Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.”

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