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The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men, — George R R Martin

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free. — Heraclitus

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel De Montaigne

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other. — Frank Herbert

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man. — Robert E. Howard

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike. — Dave Beard

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. — H.P. Lovecraft

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. — Diogenes Of Sinope

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The gods made seven wonders and mortal men made mine. — George R R Martin

Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward. — George R R Martin

The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man. — Leo Tolstoy

But there exists not one man who never errs. We would be gods. And gods didn't apologize. Men did. — Meljean Brook

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. — E. M. Forster

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. — Luther Burbank

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?" "No, sir." "Gods don't think they can become men. — Dennis Lehane

It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.
And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. — V.E Schwab

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Lord Byron

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?'
'Because of men like you. — George R R Martin

Agression is a trait common to men and new gods. — Emil Cioran

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth — Homer

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. — Benjamin Disraeli

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods. — Socrates

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament. — James G. Frazer

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology. — Terry Eagleton

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Robert A. Heinlein

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began. — Emma Goldman

Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils. — Robert Anton Wilson

Mena knew men like the Laird of Ravencroft Keep rarely existed, and when they did, history made gods of them.
Or demons. — Kerrigan Byrne

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. — Janet Morris

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more. — Marcus Aurelius

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition. — Frank Herbert

The gods are jealous and men are fools. — Marc Gascoigne

We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods. — Mary Stewart

I saw my real gods . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. — Anne Rice

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast. — Hesiod

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish. — George R R Martin

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation. — Pythagoras

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. — Xenophanes

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. — Louisa May Alcott

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain. — Homer

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods. — Friedrich Schiller

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. — Thucydides

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above. — George R R Martin

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods. — Charles Lindbergh

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity. — Dean Koontz

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras. — Pythagoras

It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods. — Edith Hamilton

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men. — Janet Morris

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods. — Ovid

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love! — Arthur Rimbaud

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle. — Janet Morris

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all. — Pythagoras

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. — Xenophanes

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder. — Hartley Coleridge

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods. — Heraclitus

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. — T. S. Eliot

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. — Homer

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. — Aleister Crowley

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not. — Saint Augustine

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world. — Michael Jackson

The Orb is not of itself evil. Evil is a thing that lies only in the hearts and minds of men
and of Gods, also.
Aldur — David Eddings

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
TO gods and men. — Homer

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. — John Milton

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

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. — Robert Greene

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. — Ovid

Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing. — Max Gladstone

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. — Mary Quant

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men. — Epictetus

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope! — Greg Keyes

the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones. — William Dalrymple

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. — Karl Marx

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters. — Lin Yutang

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves. — Ki Longfellow

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race. — Henry David Thoreau

Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. — Archilochus

I like the night and the sky better than the gods of men. — Albert Camus

Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods. — Bernard Cornwell

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest. — Nenia Campbell

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty. — Emma Goldman

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. — Michel De Montaigne

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. — Aristotle.

Men are mad and gods are madder. — George R R Martin

Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. — Marcus Aurelius

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. — Katherine Anne Porter

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. — H.L. Mencken

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means. — Tom Robbins

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven. — Hesiod

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. — Cyprian

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. — John Burroughs