Related quotes
“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”
As quoted in The Duality of Vision : Genius and Versatility in the Arts (1970) by Walter Sorrell, p. 28
“Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 7 (p. 208)
“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune
Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Pennsylvania Constitution (1776), Declaration of Rights http://www.pahouse.com/pa_const.htm; this may be based upon principles stated by Penn, but earlier renditions in this form have not been located.
Disputed
Context: All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience, and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establishment or modes of worship.
“But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”
IV. 320 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)