A Quote by Homer
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.
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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.
The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower:
Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.
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