Zeus Quotes

• It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

  Hesiod

  Mind, Literature, Tricks

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• Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

  Aristophanes

  Eye, Atheism, Mouths

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• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

  Plato

  Two, Greek, Half

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• The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

  Sophocles

  Fall, Gambling, Dice

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• Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.

  Archilochus

  Father, Night, Men

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• The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

  Aeschylus

  Air, Heaven, Earth

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.68

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• Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Aphrodite, Thunderbolts

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• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

  Aeschylus

  Done, Firsts, Causes

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

  Homer

  Military, War, Fall

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• For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

  Aeschylus

  Freedom, Knows

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• Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

  Sophocles

  Pride, Proud, Tongue

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• Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

  Sophocles

  Children, Heaven, Bears

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• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

  Heraclitus

  Wise, Names, Willing

  "Fragments (Fragment 32)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

  Aeschylus

  Truth, Lying, Lips

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• Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Circles, Feet

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• Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

  Archilochus

  Science, Night, Light

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• Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

  Cleanthes

  Fate, Wish, Hesitation

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• Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

  Euripides

  Hate, Too Much, Action

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• An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Mad, Firsts, Ancient

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• Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

  Archilochus

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Eclipse" by James Turrell, 1999.

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• All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

  Homer

  Giving, Stranger, Beggar

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• And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

  Hesiod

  Men, Hair, Race

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• I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

  Socrates

  Sports, Wrestling, Average

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