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id: 10430
author: Lucian, of Samosata
title: Trips to the Moon
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  Such was the employment of kings and great men: in private houses there was something more ridiculous; there I saw Hermodorus the Epicurean forswearing himself for a thousand drachmas; Agathocles the Stoic quarrelling with his disciples about the salary for tuition; Clinias the orator stealing a phial out of the temple; not to mention a thousand others, who were undermining walls, litigating in the forum, extorting money, or lending it upon usury; a sight, upon the whole, of wonderful variety. It is astonishing that such wise men should disagree, and, with regard to the same things, should not all be of the same opinion.


id: 47242
author: Lucian, of Samosata
title: The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04
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  theirs breeds good men. These externals that you pour contempt upon, you may learn that they are seemly enough not merely for good men, but for Gods, if you will look at the Gods' statues; do those resemble you, or me?


id: 6585
author: Lucian, of Samosata
title: The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
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  For them, mere poverty would have had no terrors, had they been able, like other men, to earn their bread by their labours. I believe you wish that _you_ could turn love-songs, or sing other men's with a good grace; perceiving as you do what a thing it is to be in request.


id: 6829
author: Lucian, of Samosata
title: The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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  This time I am to write of Demonax, with two sufficient ends in view: first, to keep his memory green among good men, as far as in me lies; and secondly, to provide the most earnest of our rising generation, who aspire to philosophy, with a contemporary pattern, that they may not be forced back upon the ancients for worthy models, but imitate this best--if I am any judge--of all philosophers. It does not follow that we think they are Gods: they were good men.


