There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.
For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.
Ethiopians say that their gods are snubnosed and black
Thracians that they are pale and red-haired.
Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
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