Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
Iliad and Odyssey
Zeus's observation at the beginning of The Odyssey, criticizing mortals for blaming gods for self-inflicted misfortunes.
c. 8th century BCE
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