Top 33 Quintus Curtius Quotes
#1. 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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#3. 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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#7. 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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#8. Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.
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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. What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.
Charles R. Swindoll
#11. I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan
#12. Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
Jean Anouilh
#13. The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.
Adolf Hitler
#14. 1 JOHN 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Anonymous
#17. When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
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#19. Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
Alberto Manguel
#20. Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
John Polkinghorne
#21. He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
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#25. Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
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#26. Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
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#27. 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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#29. A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
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#30. Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#31. Very few people understand that swords aren't dangerous, Tavi, nor hands nor arms, nor furies. Minds are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both.
Jim Butcher
#32. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
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#33. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
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