34 Quotes by Lucian

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

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

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

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

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.

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.