Lucian
Lucian
Lucian of Samosatawas a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian. Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a "barbarian tongue"which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic...
given gracious position
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.
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wise moments ends
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
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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.
tears cry make-you-cry
There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
long historian relate
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
mercy enough
Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
littles needs helping
Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.
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The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.
men greed gold
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.
mean stories happy-endings
Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.
knowledge knows
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
men suffering poverty
Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.