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Quotes from The Bronze God of Rhodes — L. Sprague de Camp

1907–2000 United States

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As all young men must, I was learning the painful lesson that there is no substitute for experience.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

Verily, the great man finds gold and rubies more easily come by than true friendship.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

There’s more magic in a well-aimed three-talent ball than in all the wizards of Egypt.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

The trouble with Rhodes is, it’s got too many orators and not enough engineers.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

Folly is mortals’ self-selected misfortune.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

Whereas you believe in no gods but Iao, he carries this skepticism to its logical conclusion and believes in no gods at all. The difference seems slight to me.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

All we can say for sure is that monotheism proved as deadly a foe to learning as war and barbarism. Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

“So you studied under Lysippos? Didn’t you find him a somewhat thorny character?”
“At times, though I should prefer a difficult teacher of the first rank to an amiable mediocrity.”

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

“When I met him in Antigoneia, he seemed a man of truly kingly quality.”
Nikolaos, the full citizen, said: “If by kingly quality you mean cold-blooded treachery and murder, then Antigonos is your man.”

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

I soon found, however, that most of these parties bored me to tears. These magnates are not really such villains as the poor are wont to think them; their worst fault is dullness. They talk about their games and sports, their children and relatives, their purchases and sales, their aches and pains, and they talk about them over and over.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: L. Sprague de Camp (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.