Quintus Curtius Rufus quotes
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“A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 272-73, De Rebus Gestis Alexandria Magni, VI, 3, 11, 1922.
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“The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : Quintus Curtius Rufus, John Rowe Workman (1956). “Quintus Curtius [History of Alexander]”
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“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 14, 19,
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“Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.”
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“Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]”
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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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“Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.”
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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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“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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“Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 5, 21,
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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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“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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“Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.”
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“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,
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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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“He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 8,
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“Fear makes men believe the worst.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 22,
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“The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.”
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“A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet”
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“A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,
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“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,
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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.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,
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“A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.”
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“Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 23,
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“Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.”
-- Quintus Curtius RufusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 618-19, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, VII, 5, 1922.
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