Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Fire #Sparks #Neglected
“The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Rivers #Flow #Sound
“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Doe #Reason #Lasting
“Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Dog #Bark
“Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Haste
“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.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Men #Prosperity #Enough
“Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Strong #May #Weak
“It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Fate #Comfort #Misfortunes
“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.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Fashion #Long #Vices
“Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Stronger #Habit
“A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Country #Men #Brave
“Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Virtue #Can Not
“Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Weak #Danger #Position
“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Made
“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.]”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Fear #Men #Mind
“Habit is stronger than nature.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Stronger #Habit
“He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Tree #Height #Fool
“Fear makes men believe the worst.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Believe #Men #Worst
“The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Superstitions #Rulers
“A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Dog #Bark
“A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Cowardice #Bark
“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Despair #Incentives #Honorable Death
“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.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Law #Long #Association
“A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Fire #Sparks #Neglected
“Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Powerful #Men #Threatening
“Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.”
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Father #Pay #Sin

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