Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. Lucian More Quotes by Lucian More Quotes From Lucian I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him. Lucian divinity blow men It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything. Lucian knows knowledge The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. Lucian historian happened tasks 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. Lucian sacrifice men thinking Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it. Lucian suffering may men 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 Lucian historian relate long Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around. Lucian mercy enough
