Lucan

Quotes by Lucan

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

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• Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

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• The best mask for demoralization is daring.

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

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

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• Every great man inevitably resents a partner in greatness.

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• 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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• Not a stone but has its history.

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• How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

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

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

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

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