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...
sacrifice men thinking
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.
happiness night thinking
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
thinking use being-there
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
thinking half painting
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.
art character thinking
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.
benefit both committed companies entertainment harness potential power provide services using
Both companies are committed as never before to provide new entertainment services for the benefit of consumers, using 3G to harness the power and potential of new technology.
wise moments ends
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
past journey want
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.
dance voice lips
The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.
country kings integrity
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.