This is in reference to the slow and calculated nature in which the President enacted his plan. By first saving face, sending away the servant who informed him and then Nicholas, and then poisoning his wife with a salad. It could be said that there is no God before his eyes because in the Bible's book of Exodus, Chapter 21, Verses 14 it states "But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death."

New International Version. (2011). The Holy Bible: New International Version. Zondervan.

Rabelais here presents a society that operates without the traditional laws of the monistic system. A departure from the authoritarian structures of medieval society, reflecting humanist ideals of individual freedom and autonomy. This is a commentary on the society as a whole as Rabelais believed that every member of society should have a duty to perform, though monks simply remain idle.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b313413&seq=1

Here Calonice is saying that she would rather would through fire than surrender the pleasure of sex with her husband, as there is nothing else like it. Basically saying that it is worse than the worse torture they can imagine and asking if there is anything else she could do instead.

https://literacle.com/aristophanes-lysistrata/

This passage spoken by Krishna is an attempt to reassure Arjuna by way of explaining to him the nature of Souls. He states here if we know the soul to be indestructible and everlasting then there is no reason to grieve the body. As stated by Ithamar Theodor "The nature of the soul is implicitly contrasted with that of the body; the soul is eternal and primeval, it is not subjected to birth nor to death, it changes bodies just as one changes garments, it is wondrous, difficult to comprehend, permanent and unchanging"

Theodor, Ithamar. “Chapter 2: The Nature of The Soul.” Exploring the Bhagavad Gita; Philosophy, Structure and Meaning, Routledge, 2016, pp. 31–32.