Diogenes Laërtius - God Quotes

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He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; 18 but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God"; that Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny"; Theophrastus, "a silent deceit"; Theocritus, "an ivory mischief"; Carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards".

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The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

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They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.

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That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.

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He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.

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One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."

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Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."

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