The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
—Lucian
Topics: Happiness
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
—Lucian
Topics: Death, Dying
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
—Lucian
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
—Lucian
Topics: Fate
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poet says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, but 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 writings 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.
—Lucian
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
—Lucian
Topics: Money
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
—Lucian
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
—Lucian
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