Top 5 Lucian of Samosata Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood – but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect – that I am a liar.”

— Lucian of Samosata

2. “Dreams are great magicians.”

— Lucian of Samosata

3. “The city was filled to overflowing with persons who had neither brains nor individuality, who bore no resemblance to men that live by bread, and had only their outward shape to distinguish them from sheep.”

— Lucian of Samosata

4. “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.”

— Lucian of Samosata

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

— Lucian of Samosata

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