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Serpents, thirst, burning-sand – all are welcomed by the brave; endurance finds pleasure in hardship; virtue rejoices when it pays dear for its existence.
Lucan
The dead are free from Fortune; Mother Earth has room for all her children, and he who lacks an urn has the sky to cover him.
Lucan
More was lost there than mere life and existence: we were overthrown for all time to come.
Lucan
Might became the standard of right.
Lucan
Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.
Lucan
Which had the fairer pretext for warfare, we may not know: each has high authority to support him; for, if the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
Lucan
How ready are the gods to grant supremacy to men, and how unready to maintain it!
Lucan
Learn what life requires, How little nature needs!
Lucan
And now cruel famine came – famine that is ever first in the train of great disasters.
Lucan
Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.
Lucan
The hungry slave Brings danger to his master, not himself.
Lucan
When the existence and safety of so many nations depend upon your single life, and so large a part of the world has chosen you for its head, it is cruel of you to court death.
Lucan
He would rather burst a city gate than find it open to admit him.
Lucan
Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves.
Lucan
The chain of causes comes down from the creation of the world.
Lucan
But Caesar, headlong in all his designs, thought nothing done while anything remained to do.
Lucan
No life is short that gives a man time to slay himself.
Lucan
Legality conferred on crime.
Lucan
Let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope.
Lucan
Such was the character, such the inflexible rule of austere Cato – to observe moderation and hold fast to the limit, to follow nature, to give his life for his country, to believe that he was born to serve the whole world and not himself.
Lucan
If great renown is won by true merit, and if virtue is considered in itself and apart from success, then all that we praise in any of our ancestors was Fortune's gift.
Lucan
Discordant concord.
Lucan
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