Lucian Of Samosata Quotes

Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.