“He who denies his due to the strong man armed grants him everything.”
Arma tenenti
omnia dat, qui justa negat.
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Book I, line 348 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“How safe and easy the poor man's life and his humble dwelling! How blind men still are to Heaven's gifts!”
O vitae tuta facultas
pauperis angustique lares! o munera nondum
intellecta deum!
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book V, line 527 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“If a man would be righteous, let him depart from a court. Virtue is incompatible with absolute power. He who is ashamed to commit cruelty must always fear it.”
Exeat aula
qui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestas
non coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.
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Book VIII, line 493 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.”
Ignorantque datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IV, line 579 (tr. J. D. Duff).
E. Ridley's translation:
: The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.
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“No life is short that gives a man time to slay himself.”
Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illa
quaerendae sibi mortis habet.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IV, line 478 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“Let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope.”
Sit caeca futuri
mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book II, line 14 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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