"The happy think a lifetime short, but to……" — Lucian
"The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity."
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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 Eternity Quotes
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call…
— Drew Barrymore
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms…
— William Blake
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
— William Blake
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
— William Blake
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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