Top 37 Curtius Quotes

#1. The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#2. The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

D. James Kennedy

#3. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]

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

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#5. I grind so fine, I'm practically coffee, he says with a straight face, then busts out a grin.

Jillian Dodd

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

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#7. Habit is stronger than nature.

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#8. It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.

Hudson Taylor

#9. 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

#10. The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.

Yasmin Paige

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

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#12. Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

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#13. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

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#14. Fear makes men believe the worst.

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#15. Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

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#16. Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#17. Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It's that fundamental!

Ben Feldman

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

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#19. There is always a method in the seeming chaos of creation" - The Monk

Shashi

#20. Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

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#21. Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

Suzanne Collins

#22. 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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#23. When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

John Cleese

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

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#25. The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

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#26. I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

Katharine Hepburn

#27. Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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#28. 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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#29. Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

Elizabeth Warren

#30. Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

Wayne W. Dyer

#34. The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway,

#35. Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

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#36. Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

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

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