Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

• The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

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  Latin, Rivers, Sound

  Quintus Curtius Rufus, John Rowe Workman (1956). “Quintus Curtius [History of Alexander]”

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• A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
  [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

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  Fire, Sparks, Neglected

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• Haste is slow.
  [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Haste

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• Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Doe, Reason, Lasting

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 14, 19,

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• The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Superstitions, Rulers

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• Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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  Powerful, Men, Threatening

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 23,

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• When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Made

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,

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• Fear makes men believe the worst.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Fear, Believe, Men

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 22,

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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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  Weak, Danger, Position

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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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  Fashion, Long, Vices

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• Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Father, Pay, Sin

  "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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• Habit is stronger than nature.

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  Stronger, Habit

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 5, 21,

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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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  Fear, Men, Mind

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• Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Dog, Bark, Bites

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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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  Virtue, Can Not

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• He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Tree, Doe, Looks

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 8,

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• A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Dog, Bark, Bites

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• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Despair, Incentives, Honorable Death

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.

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  Strong, May, Weak

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• A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Fire, Sparks, Neglected

  "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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• A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
  [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

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  Country, Men, Brave

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• Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

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  Latin, Doctors, Disease

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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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  Law, Long, Association

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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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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  Fate, Comfort, Knows

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• A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

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  Cowardice, Bark, Bites

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,

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