Marcus Annaeus Lucan

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    Dispense with all delay!
    Postponement always harms when all’s prepared.
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

    No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

    He [Pompey] stands, the shadow of a great name.
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

    Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)