Variant translation: Success is man's god.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 59
“What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?”
Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
LXII
Carmina
No. 19
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.”
sic vive cum hominibus tamquam deus videat, si loquere cum deo tamquam homines audiant.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter X: On living to oneself, Line 5.
“He who is worthy of God is also a god among men.”
Sentences of Sextus
“Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.”
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
“Depend more on the promises of God than those of men.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 33
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 83.
“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.”
Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10
Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125
