Lucian Quotes

#1. There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

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#2. The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

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#3. The industry needs transforming. It's for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

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#4. Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.

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#5. It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

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#6. The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

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#7. I have absolutely no idea how this site works. But if you're a reader who's interested in my books, I'll answer any questions you have.

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#8. Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

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#9. Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

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#10. The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

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#11. How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

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#12. The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

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#13. I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

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#14. The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

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#15. The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

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#16. The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

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#17. Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

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#18. Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

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#19. The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.

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#20. The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

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#21. Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.

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#22. Dancing is as old as love.

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