Lucan Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

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#5. How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

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#6. Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

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#7. A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

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

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

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#10. By boldness great fears are cancealed.

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#11. Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

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

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

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

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

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#16. Great fear is concealed under daring.

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#17. All go free when multitudes offend.

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#18. 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.

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#19. An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

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#20. Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

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#21. 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.

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

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#23. There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

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

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

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

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#27. Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

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

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

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#30. Not a stone but has its history.

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#31. The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

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

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

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

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