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For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Juvenal
Men, Giving
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 321-25, Satires, X, line 349, 1922.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.