Lucan Quotes

Cum tot in hac anima populorum vita salusque
pendeat et tantus caput hoc sibi fecerit orbis,
saevitia est voluisse mori.

Arma tenenti
omnia dat, qui justa negat.

O faciles dare summa deos eademque tueri
difficiles!

Clarum et venerabile nomen
gentibus.

The very ruins have been destroyed.

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.

Quod defles, illud amasti.

Ignorantque datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.

But Virtue will follow fearless wherever destiny summons her. It will be a reproach to the gods, that they have made even me guilty.

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.

Audendo magnus tegitur timor.

Poverty was scorned,
Fruitful of warriors; and from all the world
Came that which ruins nations.

Unica belli
praemia civilis, victis donare salutem,
perdidimus.

Iusque datum sceleri.

Hi mores, haec duri inmota Catonis
secta fuit, servare modum finemque tenere
naturamque sequi patriaeque inpendere vitam
nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.