Lucian Quotes

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.

I’ll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.

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

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

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

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

The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

Dancing is as old as love.

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

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