“Prepare yourselvesfor the roaring voice of the God of Joy!”

“This town must learn,even against its will, how much it coststo scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.So shall I vindicate my virgin motherand reveal myself to mortals as a God,the son of God.”

“The God knows when to smile.”

“God helps him who strives hard.”

“My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.”

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.”

“Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?”