„The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„Aegistheus, the kings have another secret…. Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men — and to them alone — to let him flee or to destroy him.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free.“
— Heraclitus
„War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.“
— Heraclitus
„Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Sleep, universal king of gods and men.“
— Homér
„The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.“
— Anaïs Nin
„A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.“
— Diane Arbus
„Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.“
— Paulo Coelho
„There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But… this is what God wants of you.“
— Stephen King