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Ovid on God

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There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.

It is expedient there should be gods, and as it is expedient, let us believe them to exist.

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.

There is a God within us, and we glow when he stirs us.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish God
Themselves are cherished.

Let the crowd delight in things of no value; to me let the golden-haired Apollo minister full cups from the Castalian spring (the fountain of Parnassus).

The god we now behold with opened eyes,
A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ovid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.