Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.
