The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.More Lucian [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.More Lucian [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Realize that true happiness lies within you.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Dancing is as old as love.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraidMore Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.More Lucian [03/29/2018 05:03:36]