Lucan Quotes
- The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
- All go free when multitudes offend.
- The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
- I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
- The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
- Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
- There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
- Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
- God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die
- Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared
- To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong