Critias Quotes

• It was man who first made men believe in gods.

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  Fear, Believe, Men

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• Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

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  Fighting, Prudent, Sides

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• Is not living at all not better than living badly?

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  Fragment, quoted in H Diels and W Kranz (eds) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1952), vol.2, 385, no.23.

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• No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.

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  God, Ontology, Mercy

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• For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

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  Islands, Sea, Way

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