Ovid
Poet
"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."
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Jupiter
37 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor."
Ovid
Poet
"If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts."
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path."
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"When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth."
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"If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years."
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"Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him."
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"Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things."
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"A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success."
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"What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter."
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"If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty."
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"If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?"
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"But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action."
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"Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman."
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