Plato, Euthyphro, section 15a

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[15a] since we have nothing good which they do not give. But what advantage do they derive from what they get from us? Or have we so much the better of them in our bartering that we get all good things from them and they nothing from us?

Euthyphro
Why you don't suppose, Socrates, that the gods gain any advantage from what they get from us, do you?

Socrates
Well then, what would those gifts of ours to the gods be?

Euthyphro
What else than honor and praise, and, as I said before, gratitude?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.

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