“What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?”
Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXII
Carmina
“Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.”
Variant translation: Success is man's god.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 59
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ancient Athenian playwright -525–-456 BCRelated quotes
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
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.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
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.”
Quintus Sextius Roman philosopher
Sentences of Sextus
“Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.”
Bias of Priene (-600–-530 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the Seven Sages
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
“Depend more on the promises of God than those of men.”
Shaqiq al-Balkhi Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 33
William Arthur (minister) (1819–1901) Wesleyan Methodist minister and author
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.”
Xenophanes (-570–-475 BC) Presocratic philosopher
Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (1554–1625) English politician
Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125
