Quotes from Lucian

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

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.

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

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

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

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

Dancing is as old as love.

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.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

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