'Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails.' Book 6 'These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!' Book 4 'The windy satisfaction of the tongue.' Book 4 'Forget youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace.' Book 3 'Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for wisdom never lies.' Book 3 'A faultless body and a blameless mind.' Book 3 ''No need to wonder any more, Sir, who called this session. 'He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.' Book 2 'For never, never, wicked man was wise.' Book 2 'Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.' Book 2 'And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.' Book 2 'Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.' Book 2 'What if his great father came from the unknown world and rove these men like dead leaves through the place?' Book 1

'It is a wise child that knows his own father.' Book 1 And what of their own failings? Greed and folly double the suffering in the lot of man. ''My word, how mortals take the gods to task! All their afflictions come from us, we hear.

'With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.' Book 1 'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy's sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.' (First lines.) These will help you gain a deeper understanding of this ancient epic poem, which is considered to be one of the very first extant works of Western literature. Here are examples of some of the most famous quotes from Homer's The Odyssey, (850 BC).

Odysseus brave quotes