“What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.”

“Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth”

“Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”

“The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.”

“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”

“It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.”