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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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Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Make us enemies of every people on earth, but prevent a civil war.
The hungry slave
Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Mighty things haste to destruction: this limit have the gods assigned to human prosperity.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Good faith and probity are rarely found among the followers of the camp.
He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to him who is armed.
But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.
Thinking that nothing was done, if anything remained to do.
Away with delay—it always injures those who are prepared.
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
Has God any habitation except earth, and sea, and air, and heaven, and virtue? Why do we seek the highest beyond these? Jupiter is wheresoever you look, wheresoever you move.
No—foreign swords could never pierce so deeply.
The gods conceal from those destined to live how sweet it is to die, that they may continue living.
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.
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