Lucan Quotes
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Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.
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Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
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Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
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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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Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
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By boldness great fears are cancealed.
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Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
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An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
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A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
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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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Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
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Not a stone but has its history.
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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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...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
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There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
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Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
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The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
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How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
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Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
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All go free when multitudes offend.
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Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.
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Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
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To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
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Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
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