Lucan

All go free when multitudes offend.

— Lucan

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

— Lucan

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

— Lucan

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

— Lucan

“Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit, Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet Se quoque lege…

— Lucan

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

— Lucan

By boldness great fears are cancealed.

— Lucan

“Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded.”

— Lucan

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves…

— Lucan

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

— Lucan

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and…

— Lucan

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared

— Lucan

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

— Lucan

“Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos,…

— Lucan

“quod defles, illud amasti.”

— Lucan

“Even those who lack tombs are covered by the sky.”

— Lucan

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

— Lucan

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

— Lucan

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

— Lucan

“Whether the author of the universe, when the fire gave place and he first took in his hand the shapeless realm of…

— Lucan

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

— Lucan

God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die

— Lucan