“If Men, and Mortal Powers you not regard,
Yet know, the Gods both Right and Wrong record.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 27
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“Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!”
Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 620 (H. Rushton Fairclough)
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
Ode in Imitation of Alcæus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make states, but men who are able to rely upon themselves", Aristides, Orations (Jebb's edition), vol. i. (trans. by A. W. Austin); By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcæus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed: "Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls."—Ibid. vol. ii.
“Snatch him, ye Gods, from mortal eyes!”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 101
Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
The Caesars (c. 361)
Context: Know all ye mortals who have entered this contest,
that according to our laws and decrees the victor is
allowed to exult but the vanquished must not complain.
Depart then wherever you please, and in future live
every one of you under the guidance of the gods.
Let every man choose his own guardian and guide.
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Decisions http://byub.org/findatalk/details.asp?ID=4343 BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977.
“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
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Written by Henry Stuber as part of a biographical sketch of Franklin appended to a 1793 edition of Franklin's autobiography and sometimes reprinted with it in the 19th century. It is frequently misattributed to Franklin himself.
Misattributed
Context: Libraries … will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved. It is in the regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns.