Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
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Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
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The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
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For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.
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It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
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Fear makes men believe the worst.
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
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Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
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Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
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Habit is stronger than nature.
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A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
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Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
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Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
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Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.
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Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
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Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
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Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
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When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]
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Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
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A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
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He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
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Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
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The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.
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