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My king, I do not know all things but I do know that we mortals cannot orchestrate for the gods what they have agreed to accomplish. — Ray Anyasi

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god ... What fools these mortals be. — Benjamin R. Smith

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple. — Megan Whalen Turner

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. — L.M. Montgomery

The planet is littered with irresponsible gods. — T.F. Hodge

Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals? — R.A. Salvatore

You're saying the gods don't have free will."
"The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals. — Lev Grossman

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest. — Katherine Cecil Thurston

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals. — Steven Erikson

Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one. — Khushwant Singh

Nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity. — Madeline Miller

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine. — Karen Traviss

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time. — Homer

If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell. — Bette Lord

Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come. — Megan Whalen Turner

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

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay. — Lord Byron

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals. — Jonathan Kieran

Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it. — Bette Bao Lord

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are. — Robin LaFevers

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. — Xenophanes

Ungit tells me things. I hear of terrible doings in this land, mortals aping the gods and stealing the worship due — C.S. Lewis

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize. — Homer

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

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us. — Pindar

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better. — Xenophanes

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them? — Charles Kingsley

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs! — Plautus

The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes. — Josephine Angelini

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

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. — Franz Grillparzer

The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous. — Jostein Gaarder

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. — Trudi Canavan

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most. — Barry B. Powell

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools. — Melina Marchetta