"Bear up, old heart! You’ve borne worse, far worse,
that day when the Cyclops, man-mountain, bolted
your hardy comrades down. But you held fast –
Nobody but your cunning pulled you through
the monster’s cave you thought would be your death."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 20, lines 20-24. Odysseus awakens from his sleep with a heart full of rage after his abuse by the suitors. He tells his spirit to endure, that he has borne far worst than this. He says that his cunning had saved him from death in the Cyclops’ cave.