Odyssey Quotes

The following, translated Odyssey quotes come from The Stoic's Bible, edited by Giles Laurén, who bases them on Pope's translation of Homer's Odyssey.

I have grouped some of the Homer quotes into rough themes.

See The Life and Work of Homer

• FATE:
  "Yield to the force of unresisted Fate, And bear unmoved the wrongs of base mankind,
  The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind." Minerva to Ulysses. Hom. Od.XIII.
  
• FATE:
  "Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute decree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall’d the crimes of fate." Jove. Hom. Od.I. 2.
  
• MODERATION:
  "Who love too much, hate in the like extreme,
  And both the golden mean alike condemn." Menelaus to Telemachus. Hom. Od.XV.
  
• SELF-CONTROL:
  "The hero stood self-conquer’d, and endured." of Ulysses. Hom. Od.XVII. 253