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  • For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

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    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 321-25, Satires, X, line 349, 1922.
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For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. - Juvenal
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