https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:50:54 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/lucian/17580/ https://wist.info/lucian/17580/#respond Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:58:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=17580 Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Lucian (c. AD 120 - after 180) Assyrian rhetoric, satirist [Lucian of Samasota]
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/lucian/17580/feed/ 0 17580 https://wist.info/lucian/5726/ https://wist.info/lucian/5726/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:27:11 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5726 The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poet says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, but should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writings no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

Lucian (c. AD 120 - after 180) Assyrian rhetoric, satirist [Lucian of Samasota]
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