Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.