Top 35 Lucan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.”

— Lucan

2. “By boldness great fears are cancealed.”

— Lucan

3. “A show of daring oft conceals great fear.”

— Lucan

4. “Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.”

— Lucan

5. “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 behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.”

— Lucan

6. “Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.”

— Lucan

7. “Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.”

— Lucan

8. “As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.”

— Lucan

9. “I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.”

— Lucan

10. “As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.”

— Lucan

11. “The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.”

— Lucan

12. “There stands the shadow of a glorious name.”

— Lucan

13. “Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.”

— Lucan

14. “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

15. “Not a stone but has its history.”

— Lucan

16. “Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.”

— Lucan

17. “No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.”

— Lucan

18. “A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.”

— Lucan

19. “The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.”

— Lucan

20. “As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.”

— Lucan

21. “Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.”

— Lucan

22. “Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion’s ever impatient consort.”

— Lucan

23. “Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.”

— Lucan

24. “He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.”

— Lucan

25. “The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.”

— Lucan

26. “To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.”

— Lucan

27. “All go free when multitudes offend.”

— Lucan

28. “Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded.”

— Lucan

29. “Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”

— Lucan

30. “The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.”

— Lucan

31. “Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.”

— Lucan

32. “An idle life always produces varied inclinations.”

— Lucan

33. “Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.”

— Lucan

34. “Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.”

— Lucan

35. “Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.”

— Lucan

36. “Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.”

— Lucan

37. “How blind men are to Heaven’s gifts!”

— Lucan