"How gracious are the gods in bestowing high……" — Lucian
"How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given"
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23 Quotes by Lucian
Lucian has 23 quotes on this site.
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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
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Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of…
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets…
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Realize that true happiness lies within you.
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Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.
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Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.
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Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
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The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as…
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I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus,…
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The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.
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The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the…
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I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with…
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More Bestowing Quotes
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.…
— David O. McKay
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...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to…
— Corinne Heline
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I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.
— Richard Dawkins
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon…
— Thomas Starr King
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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes…
— Gautama Buddha
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing…
— William Penn
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FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights…
— Steve Kubby
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For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists…
— Frank E. Gaebelein
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[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up…
— John Dewey
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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure…
— Jane Austen
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To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to…
— Isabelle Adjani
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