Marcus Annaeus Lucanus QUOTES

1 " Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men. "

2 " And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

3 " hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

4 " quod defles, illud amasti. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

5 " God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

6 " Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Bello Civili I

7 " Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos, then the fiery stars will drop into the sea, and the earth will shake off the ocean...and the whole distracted firmament will overthrow its laws. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

8 " Whether the author of the universe, when the fire gave place and he first took in his hand the shapeless realm of raw matter, established the chain of causes for all eternity, and bound himself as well by universal law, and portioned out the universe, which endures the ages prescribed for it, by a fixed line of destiny; or whether nothing is ordained and Fortune, moving at random, brings round the cycle of events, and chance is master of mankind - in either case, let they purpose, whatever it be, be sudden; let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

9 " Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

10 " -tacito mala vota susiro concipimus"
-- Lucan v 94
With silent whisperings we,
For ill things supplicants be. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

11 " Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna
Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit,
Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet
Se quoque lege tenens, et saecula iussa ferentem
Fatorum inmoto divisit limite mundum;
Sive nihil positom est sed fors incerta vagatur
Fertque refertque vices, et habet mortalia casus:
Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit caeca future
Mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

12 " No sé donde pero le encontraré. Oiré su voz y le conoceré. Yo le serviré y le daré mi corazón y mi vida. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

13 " Inde lacessitum primo mare, cum rudis Argo
Miscuit ignotas temerato litore gentes
Priamque cum ventis pelagique furentibus undis
Conposuit mortale genus, fatisque per ilam
Accesit mors una ratem. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

14 " Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

15 " There is most joy in virtue when 'tis hardest won. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

16 " to plunge so deep takes more than any sword: such gaping wounds belong to civic hands. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

17 " From Iolcus the sea was first challenged, when the untried Argo scorned the shore and brought together nations that before were strangers; she first matched mankind against the raging winds and waves of ocean, and by her means a new form of death was added to the old. "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

18 " Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Civil War

19 " So when the world's compounded union breaks, Time ends and to old Chaos all things turn;...Dissolve the engines of the broken world. All great things crush themselves, such end the gods... "

― Marcus Annaeus Lucanus