The immortal gods
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On Benefits (Latin)
and, in the second place, not even the immortal gods are deterred from their lavish and unceasing bounty by men who are sacrilegious and neglectful of them.
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The divine beings whose punishment the guilty fear, and about whom the Epicurean wise man is said to hold a fearless, true understanding.
concerning the immortal gods he holds the truth without any fear;
But if some seem to themselves sufficiently fenced and fortified against the knowledge of men, yet they dread the gods, and believe that those very anxieties by which their minds are gnawed night and day are sent upon them by the immortal gods for the sake of punishment.
Letters to Lucilius
Divine beings credited with granting life and the faculty of philosophy to humankind.
What would you have in philosophy to look up to, if it were a thing handed out as a favour?
Who can doubt, my Lucilius, that it is the gift of the immortal gods that we live, but of philosophy that we live well?
On Benefits
The gods, invoked collectively as models of unceasing generosity despite human ingratitude
and, in the second place, not even the immortal gods are deterred from their lavish and unceasing bounty by men who are sacrilegious and neglectful of them.