The Gods sell when they give.
Glory is paid for with disgrace.
Poor are the happy, for they are
Just what passes.
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Original: Os Deuses vendem quando d?o. Compra-se a glória com desgraça. Ai dos felizes, porque s?o Só o que passa!
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Poem "O das quinas", first couples.Fernando Pessoa
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When gods war with gods, they use weapons we do not know. It was fire falling out of the sky and a mist that poisoned. It was the time of the Great Burning and the Destruction. They ran about like ants in the streets of their city — poor gods, poor gods!
Stephen Vincent Benet
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
Sallustius (or Sallust)
God is a fiction, a fairy tale. Every religion has its own and every religion says ours is the best. So there are a lot of Gods and Gods and a lot of God vendors, retailers who sell you this idea. Don’t be fooled!
Anandmurti Gurumaa
I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.
Robert A. Heinlein
If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Jesus Christ
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