By their own follies they perished, the fools.


Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey.

Marble bust of Homer. Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic original of the 2nd c. BC. From Baiae, Italy.