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Zeus Quotes

Shut your eyes and see.

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce
Eye, Zeus, Insight
James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.67, eBookIt.com

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

Esther M. Friesner
Zeus, Aphrodite, Thunderbolts

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

Hesiod
Mind, Literature, Zeus

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

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

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Aeschylus
Freedom, Zeus, Knows

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, Zeus

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

Aeschylus
Hands, Zeus, Hephaestus

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

Homer
Giving, Stranger, Zeus

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

Rick Riordan
Hippie, Zeus, Angry

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Jasper Fforde
Rebel, Cojones, Zeus
Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.130, Penguin

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Hesiod
Design, Zeus, Occasions
Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

What in the name of Zeus's testicles?

Darynda Jones
Names, Zeus, Testicles
Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.159, Macmillan

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