Memorable Greek Gods Quotes

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"The gods love to test us. They do it for their own amusement."
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
"The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
Homer, The Iliad
"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us."
William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Do not blaspheme the gods."
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
"Even a god finds it difficult to fight against necessity."
Homer, The Odyssey
"The strongest is he who has himself in his own power."
Seneca the Younger
"I am a goddess, hear me roar"
Erica Jong
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"There is no need to call me Sir, Professor. 'Lord Zeus' will do."
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."
Sophocles
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
Sophocles
"What is god? God is that which is supremely good."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."
Seneca
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."
Epictetus
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
Epictetus
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Seneca
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Seneca
"He who is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Benjamin Franklin (referencing Plutarch)
"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
Democritus
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Plato
"There are two things a person should never be angry at: What they can help, and what they cannot."
Plato
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
Plato
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
Plato

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