“The winners had the gods. But the losers had Cato.”
Source: Civil War
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Famous Lucan Quotes
Source: Lucan; The Civil War Books I-X
“hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.”
Source: Lucan; The Civil War Books I-X
“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life”
“Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.”
Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars
“I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.”
“To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.”
Source: Lucan's Pharsalia
“Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.”
“Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.”
“Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.”
“Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.”
Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars
“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.”
“Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.”
Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars
Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars
Source: The Pharsalia of Lucan
“Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.”
“Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.”
“Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.”
“All go free when multitudes offend.”
Source: Lucan's Pharsalia
“The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.”
“The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.”