LOUKIANOS

LOUKIANOS

Samosata, 120 A.D. - after 180 A.D.
MAN FEELS GOOD WHEN WINNING, THE SAME AS HE FEELS BAD WHEN LOSING
MAN FEELS GOOD WHEN WINNING, THE SAME AS HE FEELS BAD WHEN LOSING - LOUKIANOS

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Renowned sophist and writer. He was born in Samosata, that is why he is called Samosateus. Samosata belonged to the Syrian or Assyrian Country of Kimmageni, that is why he considered himself an Assyrian and dressed in the Assyrian fashion. He devoted himself to letters and wished to become an orator, which was then the pinnacle of education.

He learned the Greek language and rhetoric and became a lawyer in Antioch. But desiring fame and profit, he was later taught the sophistic rhetoric in Smyrna, and as a sophist began to display his art at festivals and fairs. He toured Asia Minor, Macedonia, and after staying long in Greece, passed into Italy to end up in Rome . After quickly recognizing the emptiness of the new profession, he renounced it, turning to philosophy, fascinated by the Platonists.

Because he was poor, he toured Gaul like a sophist, teaching and reciting, in order to acquire great wealth. After all this, he came back to Athens, where he philosophized and wrote his famous Dialogues. Lucian is reported to have written 82 works, many of which are considered pseudographies. His most beautiful works are the dialogical ones. In general, the cases of his writings attract for their variety.

With a keen eye, Lucian spread the faults of his contemporaries, the superstition, the parasitism, the pretense of the philosophers, the inexperience of the grammarians, things he stigmatized with laughable harangues and scathing remarks. A keen painter of human foibles, he sneers and mocks, not merely to make the reader laugh, but to teach, showing the luminous clarity and beauty of the Greek intellect, in comparison with the semi-barbarous mob of his contemporaries. He died in Alexandria.

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  1. EDUCATION TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT AND A LONG TIME AND A LOT OF EXPENSES
  2. IF YOU'RE FAST WHEN EATING AND SLOW WHEN RUNNING, EAT WITH YOUR FEET AND RUN WITH YOUR MOUTH
  3. FOR THE SECRETS PUT A STAMP ON YOUR TONGUE
  4. IT IS ENOUGH THAT THERE IS A PURPOSE IN EDUCATION AND THEN IT GIVES US STRENGTH
  5. SUCH SHOULD THE WRITER BE: FEARLESS, HONEST, FREE, COURAGEOUS, AND A FRIEND OF TRUTH, AND TO SAY, LIKE THE COMEDIAN, THE THINGS FOR WHAT THEY ARE
  6. FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD LIFE IS SHORT BUT FOR THOSE WHO DO EVIL ONE NIGHT IS AN INFINITE TIME
  7. IN DOING EVIL, YOU MAY PERHAPS ESCAPE THE PERCEPTION OF MEN, BUT YOU WILL HIDE NOTHING FROM THE GODS, EVEN THIS THOUGHT OF YOURS
  8. HISTORY CAN'T ACCEPT A LIE FOR ONE MOMENT, AS THE INFLAMED ARTERY, ACCORDING TO THE DOCTORS, CAN'T TAKE WHAT ENTERS INTO IT WHEN WE SWALLOW
  9. THE HISTORIAN MUST HAVE TWO MAIN INHERENT VIRTUES: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND DESCRIPTIVE POWER
  10. THE WHOLE WORLD'S GOODS DO NOTHING IF THERE IS A LACK OF HEALTH
  11. ONLY THE WEALTH OF THE SOUL IS GOOD
  12. IT IS BETTER TO BE SEEN BY MANY, THAN ONE
  13. MAN FEELS GOOD WHEN WINNING, THE SAME AS HE FEELS BAD WHEN LOSING
  14. IN A STATE OF ANARCHY, FORCE IS A MEASURE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
  15. HE WHO WANTS TO TAKE A WIFE SHOULD CHOOSE CHARACTER, NOT WEALTH
  16. THE FAMILY IS THE BASIS AND PRINCIPLE OF EVERY CIVILIZATION
  17. ONLY THOSE WHO LACK HEALTH CAN APPRECIATE ITS VALUE
  18. IT'S EASY TO SWIM WHEN SOMEONE ELSE HOLDS YOUR HEAD UP
  19. YOU WILL RECEIVE NOTHING FROM SOMEONE THAT HAS NOTHING