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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, 39 – April 30, 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman epic poet. In A.D. 65, at the age of 25, he was charged with treason against Nero, and was commanded to commit suicide.
Also known as: Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.
Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
The sin of thousands always goes unpunished.
Has he any dwelling-place save earth and sea, the air of heaven and virtuous hearts? Why seek we further for deities? All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.
Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.
Let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope.
He who denies his due to the strong man armed grants him everything.
No life is short that gives a man time to slay himself.
Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success.
The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty.
How ready are the gods to grant supremacy to men, and how unready to maintain it!
The chain of causes comes down from the creation of the world.
Serpents, thirst, burning-sand – all are welcomed by the brave; endurance finds pleasure in hardship; virtue rejoices when it pays dear for its existence.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves.
And now cruel famine came – famine that is ever first in the train of great disasters.
We praise loyalty, but it pays the price when it supports those whom Fortune crushes.
Believing nothing done whilst there remained anything else to be done.
The vulnerable points of Liberty now making her last stand on earth.
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