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• Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
  -- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6...
• Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schille
• Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
• The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets.
  -- Schiller (1759-1805) -- Don Carlos, Act i, Sc. 6...
• Against boredom, even the gods struggle in vain. --Nietzsche
• I would the gods had made thee poetical. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act iii, Sc.
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• Thou art all the comfort The gods will diet me with.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Cymbeline -- Act iii, Sc. 4...
• An angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Cymbeline -- Act iii, Sc.
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• The universe is one of God's thoughts. -- Friedrich Schille