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Lucian has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls…
• 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…
• I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great…
• 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…

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