Another I like from the the Poet Quintus Ennius ,. a Calabrian Roman epic poet from 230BC :
He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
[Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:
Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]
- quoted by Cicero in "De Officiis", 1, 16
and also
A true friend is tested in adversity.
Proverbs
* Does this in any way , start to ring any bells? These are not "Biblical" in origin. There are thousands more that originated before during and after the jewish "prophets" and this singled out rabbai from Nazereth. From out of Persia , Egypt , Rome , India and China.
I can believe in "God" , but not one so narrowly concieved & envisioned in just Christianity, Islam etc. To be "God" , that entity would have to prove to be far greater than even Jonah's Whale or Noah's Ark , or Mose's burning bushes ...or all that tiny collection of stories and fables represented in the myopic history of the God of Abraham. |
