Lucan famous quotes

07-18-2025

All go free when multitudes offend.
-- Lucan

#Freedom #Multitudes
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
-- Lucan

#Freedom #Liberty #World
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
-- Lucan

#Evil #Danger #Situation
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
-- Lucan

#Sympathy #Death #Men
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
-- Lucan

#Forgiveness #Men #Judging
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
-- Lucan

#Men #Anticipation
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.
-- Lucan

#Stars #Integrity #Fire
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
-- Lucan

#Men #Doe #Prosperity
Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
-- Lucan

#Mother #Poverty #Prostitution
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
-- Lucan

#Heaven #Growth #Weight
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
-- Lucan

#Inspirational #Fear #Real
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
-- Lucan

#Produce #Idle #Inclination
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.
-- Lucan

#Air #Sea #Sky
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
-- Lucan

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

#War #People #Enemy
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
-- Lucan

#God #Deities
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
-- Lucan

#Crime
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
-- Lucan

#Daring #Shows
There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
-- Lucan

#Names #Shadow #Glorious
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
-- Lucan

#Strong #Men #Power
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
-- Lucan

#Society #Delay #Prepared
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
-- Lucan

#Men #Names #Shadow
Not a stone but has its history.
-- Lucan

#History #Stones
To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
-- Lucan

#Honesty #Justice
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.
-- Lucan

#Wisdom #Stars #Men
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
-- Lucan

#Men #May #Littles
How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
-- Lucan

#Men #Heaven #Blind

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