Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will not say hecatombs, but, by the gods, even the Olympian sacrifice of a thousand oxen is merely empty expenditure and nothing else?


"To the Cynic Heracleios" in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1913) edited by W. Heinemann, Vol II, p. 93

Julian Quotes

Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will...

Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will...

Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will...

Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will...