“It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus.”

— Hesiod

Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 613.

Original

Ὣς οὐκ ἔστι Διὸς κλέψαι νόον οὐδὲ παρελθεῖν.

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