lucian

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

“ I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood--but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect--that I am a liar. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it? ”

“ How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given. ”

“ Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. ”

“ Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it. ”

“ Dancing is as old as love. ”

“ Let him be of a noble and liberal mind; let him neither fear nor hope for anything; otherwise he will only resemble those unjust judges who determine from partiality or prejudice, and give sentence for hire: but, whatever the man is, as such let him be described. ”

“ It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything. ”