What profits us, that we from heaven derive a soul immortal, and with looks erect survey the stars, if, like the brutal kind, we follow where our passions lead the way?
—Claudian
Topics: Passion
Mercifulness makes us equal to the gods.
—Claudian
Topics: Mercy
He is next to the gods whom reason and not passion impels.
—Claudian
Topics: Reason
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe’s cup.
—Claudian
Topics: Luxury
The people are fashioned according to the example of their king; and edicts are of less power than the model which his life exhibits.
—Claudian
Topics: Kings
The covetous man is always poor.
—Claudian
Topics: Appreciation, Blessings, Gratitude
He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
—Claudian
Topics: Fear
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?
—Claudian
Topics: Kindness, Service, Giving
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