Lucan Quotes - Page 2

• Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

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  Men, Giving, Poverty

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• Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

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  Greatness, Men, Partners

  Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”

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• All go free when multitudes offend.

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  Freedom, Multitudes

  Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.252

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• The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

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  Evil, Danger, Situation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 158-60, Pharsalia, VII. 104, 1922.

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

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  Loyalty, Thrones, Dominion

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

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  Fate, Son, Wife

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• By boldness great fears are cancealed.

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  Audacia

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• Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

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  Friendship, Loyal, Unfortunate

  Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”

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• Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

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  Judging, Guilt, Sides

  "Pharsalia", VII. 263 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 345-346), 1922.

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

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  Wisdom, Wish, Politics

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• Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

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  Believe, Doe, Done

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• He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

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  Heaven, Covered

  "Pharsalia", Book VII. 831 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 524-525), 1922.

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