Quotes from Lucan

Might was the measure of right.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

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

Not a stone but has its history.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

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

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

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

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

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

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

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

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

More was lost than mere life and existence.