Pluto (mythology) below than what Zeus possesses! </poem> To Plato, the god of the underworld was "an agent in [the] beneficent cycle of death and rebirth" meriting worship under the name of "Plouton", a giver of spiritual wealth. In the dialogue "Cratylus", Plato has Socrates explain the etymology of "Plouton", saying that Pluto gives wealth ("ploutos"), and his name means "giver of wealth, which comes out of the earth beneath". Because the name Hades is taken to mean "the invisible", people fear what they cannot see; although they are in error about the nature of this deity's power, Socrates says, "the office
The road to hell is paved with good intentions The road to hell is paved with good intentions The road to hell is paved with good intentions is a proverb or aphorism. An alternative form is "Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works". The saying is thought to have originated with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote ( 1150), ""L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs"" (hell is full of good wishes or desires). An earlier saying occurs in Virgil's "Aeneid": ""facilis descensus Averno" (the descent to hell is easy)". A common interpretation of the saying is that wrongdoings or evil actions