Epicurus quote: "If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another"

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever pra...
EPICURUS

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Many, many people pray. Many people would like to know if their prayers are being heard.
HAROLD KOENIG

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are un...
C.S. LEWIS

Please pray for her to feed on her own so she can come home. God is constantly answering your prayer...
GREGORY ROWLAND

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselv...
HOMER

May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN

What a glorious day it is today; We are closer to Christ return than yesterday and a day closer to a...
JOHN M. SHEEHAN

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are pe...
FREDERICK BUECHNER

Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
OSCAR WILDE

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
OSCAR WILDE

Women are the root of all evils. Men are the evils !!!
EPHDAN

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be ...
ALEXANDER POPE

Prayer is the key that unlocks all doors.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suff...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly.
JIMMY ADAMS

Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and all...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
KHALIL GIBRAN

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
HENRY MILLER

Praying is a divine pursuit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C.

If you like to purify and strengthen your prayers, then pray for those who you don't like.
WOHI PURANA

Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER

To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...

The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI

If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...

i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL

If the human race can all find one voice, scored by a mutual understanding, to live and do good by o...
MARCO OSCAR OZ

Seek God's power and presence continually.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they wo...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
HOWARD ZINN

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates
HOWARD ZINN

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...
SOCRATES

Charity is the best form of prayer. Do whatever little you can to help the not so fortunate. You may...
NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA

The wisest thing I ever done, was pray that I would be delivered from my own evils.
SUSIE L HILL

All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the...
PETER KROPOTKIN

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON

Anyone who falls short of God’s grace, out of rage, can harm many.
It our sacred duty to love...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you...
NOEL GALLAGHER

IF THE NATURE IS DESTROYED, THE EXISTENCE OF HUMANKIND IS ALSO CEASED TO EXIST. PARADOXICALLY, IF HU...
CHANDRABABU V.S.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT

All men have need of the gods.
HOMER

The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH

You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND

Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER

I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH

What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th...
ERNEST HELLO

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
HENNY YOUNGMAN

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIA

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Sometimes God delays His answers so that we'll learn how to wait
JENNY ROSALES-FERAER

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being uph...
DESMOND TUTU

Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.
OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA

Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC

There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reason...
DAN BARKER

I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all...
AESCHYLUS

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
JOHN MORLEY

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's ...
SHAWN ASHMORE

A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pra...
MACHEL SHULL

I believe that, if one would be a follower of Jesus Christ, we should pray for those who have no God...
DAVID C SCHUPBACH

The burden of paying Helpers may cause American equity investors, overall, to earn only 80 percent o...
WARREN BUFFETT

In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the work...
XENOPHANES

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.
MARIE LU

Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
OLIVER HERFORD

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
KATHERINE HEPBURN

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like t...
EMMELINE PANKHURST

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of orig...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,
MICHEL SABBAH

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
OSCAR WILDE

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another

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