Siculus Quotes

#1. Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.
-Strange Fruit

Seamus Heaney

#2. 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.

Diodorus Siculus

#3. Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Russell Smith

#4. A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.

Abhishek Ratna

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

Diodorus Siculus

#6. Medicine for the soul.

Diodorus Siculus

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

Diodorus Siculus

#8. If he ever sang, she thought, the song would be so unbearably gorgeous, it would soar over spires of stone and steel, and pierce the hearts of humans and other creatures, and he could rule the world.

Thea Harrison

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

Diodorus Siculus

#10. Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

Maximus The Confessor

#11. In closing, she advised me to drink more water, get some sleep, and suggested that in the future I refrain from strenuous physical activity in a hot room the day after falling off a roof.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

Bob Massie