Dialogue

 1 Phileb|     speaks at one time of God or Gods, and at another time of
 2 Phileb|        better men and nearer the gods than we are, have handed
 3 Phileb|          all, as there are other gods who have other noble attributes.
 4 Phileb|       moreover, the state of the gods, who cannot, without indecency,
 5 Phileb|       who are the friends of the gods, see true pictures of the
 6 Phileb| expresses about the names of the gods, which may be not unaptly
 7 Phileb|           about the names of the gods is more than human—it exceeds
 8 Phileb|        which, as I conceive, the gods tossed among men by the
 9 Phileb|       our betters and nearer the gods than we are, handed down
10 Phileb|  teaching one another, which the gods have handed down to us.
11 Phileb|          of the cause? And other gods have other attributes, by
12 Phileb|           PROTARCHUS: If so, the gods, at any rate, cannot be
13 Phileb|     alternative. But whether the gods are or are not indifferent
14 Phileb|         man is the friend of the gods; is he not?~PROTARCHUS:
15 Phileb|       good, being friends of the gods, have generally true pictures
16 Phileb|          Yes.~PROTARCHUS: By the gods, I wish that you would repeat
17 Phileb|        and more honourable among gods and men.~PROTARCHUS: Clearly,
18 Phileb|        perjury is excused by the gods; for pleasures, like children,