Great Throughts Treasury
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Lucian, aka Lucian of Samosata or Lucianus Samosatensis NULL
Greek Satirist, Rhetorician and Pamphleteer
"The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth."
"In time of peace we should think of war."
"The world is fleeting; all things pass away; or is it we that pass the they that stay?"
"The things of mortals, mortal are as they: All pass us by, quickly to fade away, If not, we pass by them and they decay."