Quintus Curtius Rufus famous quotes

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