"What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men."
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"You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories."
"That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known."
"Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not."
"With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us."
"Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?"
"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."
"I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised."
"I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up."
"Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days."
"For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke."
"To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals."
"A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight."
"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist."
"Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center."
"Equality is what does not exist among mortals."
"Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay."
"To many mortals silence great gain brings."
"Remember that I too am mortal."
"Law, the king of all mortals and immortals."
"Security is mortal's chiefest enemy."