Lucan quotes

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. (Lucan)
The sin of thousands always goes unpunished.
Lucan
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
Lucan
Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
Lucan
There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
Lucan
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Lucan
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Lucan
The mere shadow of a mighty name he stood.
Lucan
Crime levels those whom it pollutes.
Lucan
That which you weep for is what you really loved. (Lucan)
Best gift of all The knowledge how to die; next, death compelled.
Lucan
Behold the true father of his country.
Lucan
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro. in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Lucan
How safe and easy the poor man's life and his humble dwelling! How blind men still are to Heaven's gifts!
Lucan
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
Lucan
Great fear is concealed under daring.
Lucan
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Lucan
Might was the measure of right.
Lucan
The Bards also, who by the praises of their verse transmit to distant ages the fame of heroes slain in battle, poured forth at ease their lays in abundance. (Lucan)
Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
Lucan
Poverty was scorned, Fruitful of warriors; and from all the world Came that which ruins nations.
Lucan
[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.
Lucan
So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.
Lucan