Top 5 Diodorus Siculus Quotes

#1. Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.

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#2. The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

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#3. Medicine for the soul.

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#4. Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription Medicine for the soul.

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#5. It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

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