Lucian Of Samosata Quotes

#1. Dreams are great magicians.

Lucian Of Samosata

#2. Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.

Lucian Of Samosata

#3. I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

Lucian Of Samosata

#4. These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

Lucian Of Samosata

#5. The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Lucian Of Samosata

#6. The city was filled to overflowing with persons who had neither brains nor individuality, who bore no resemblance to men that live by bread, and had only their outward shape to distinguish them from sheep.

Lucian Of Samosata