"No one, no Achaean
labored hard as Odysseus labored or achieved so much.
And how did his struggles end? In suffering for that man;
for me, in relentless, heartbreaking grief for him,
lost and gone so long now – dead or alive, who knows?"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 119-123. Menelaus is aggrieved at the loss of his comrade Odysseus and laments his fate. Nobody worked as hard as or achieved so much as Odysseus, yet his struggles ended in suffering.