Curtius Rufus Quotes

#1. 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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#2. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

Otto Perez Molina

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

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#5. Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

Wolfgang Ketterle

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

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

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

Steve Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#18. Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

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#19. Fear makes men believe the worst.

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

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

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#22. (on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

Humphrey Bogart

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

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#24. 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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#25. Habit is stronger than nature.

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

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

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

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