Lucian Quotes

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• Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
• Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
• The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
• Realize that true happiness lies within you.
• Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.
• Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.
• Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
• The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
• I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness…
• The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.
• The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.
• I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.
• There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
• The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on…
• Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.
• Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
• The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
• The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?
• The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
• It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

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