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 fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.
LucianThe 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 the journey.
LucianThere is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
Lucian