"It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven."

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Source : Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

Lactantius

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“Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday”
“So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.”
“I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.”
“The future is bright at Ohio State.”

Source : "Everything Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after the Buckeyes' spring game". Interview with Ari Wasserman, www.cleveland.com. April 16, 2016.
“Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.”
“Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!”
“You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.”
“I like "Talk to Her" by [Pedro] Almodovar and "Happiness" by Todd Solondz, "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch .”

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