Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.