It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
—Lucian
Topics: Knowledge
Delay has always been injurious to those who are prepared.
—Lucian
Topics: Delay
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
—Lucian
Topics: Ancestry
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
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
—Lucian
Topics: Self-Pity, Hedonism
God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die
—Lucian
Topics: One liners, Cheating
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
—Lucian
Topics: Happiness
Not for himself, but for the world he lives.
—Lucian
Topics: Philanthropy, World
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
—Lucian
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
—Lucian
Topics: Dying, Death
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
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
—Lucian
Topics: Money
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