Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. Habit is stronger than nature.

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#6. There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

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

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#11. Fear makes men believe the worst.

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#12. Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

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

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#14. I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

Howard Norman

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

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#16. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

#17. 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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#18. Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

Larry Flynt

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

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

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

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#22. 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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#23. I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

Fred Thompson

#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 'The Sopranos' wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It's like a '50s or '60s style. It fits me well.

Vincent Pastore

#27. We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

Mike Tyson

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

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

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

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#31. I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.

Sarah Dessen