Lucan Quotes

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

All go free when multitudes offend.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

By boldness great fears are cancealed.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Not a stone but has its history.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.