Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or lucan:
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The victorious party found favor with the gods, the vanquished with Cato.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)