An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

- Lucan

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

- Lucan

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

- Lucan

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

- Lucan

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

- Lucan

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

- Lucan

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

- Lucan

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost beho…

- Lucan

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

- Lucan