Top 75 Quotes About Quintus
#1. And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti. We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.'
'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.
Stephen Baxter
#2. Quintus ... " Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?"
"Yeah."
"Never heard of him,
Rick Riordan
#3. There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus
Rick Riordan
#4. Either the future is subject to chance
in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other
or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Anthony Everitt
#5. So Septimus will be the eighty-second Lord of Stormhold," said Tertius.
"There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks," pointed out Quintus.
Neil Gaiman
#6. Holden's point of view: 'I didn't say anything for the rest of the trip to Barker's house. Quintus kept talking until I could feel a vein twitching in my forehead. I had never been so happy to see Baker in my life than when his house finally came into view.
Liz Schulte
#8. One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
[Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,
Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]
Quintus Ennius
#9. Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
#10. He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
Quintus Ennius
#13. He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
#14. Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'
[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
Quintus Ennius
#16. Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#17. A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
Quintus Ennius
#19. Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
#20. O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius
#21. After disfiguring myself with terrible blows, Entered the city of the Trojans in order to learn 280 All the plans they were making for this grievous war.
Quintus Smyrnaeus
#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.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#23. When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#24. Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
Quintus Ennius
#29. The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
[Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]
Quintus Ennius
#30. That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
Quintus Ennius
#31. Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
Quintus Ennius
#32. One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
Quintus Ennius
#34. Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.
Quintus Tullius Cicero
#35. Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
Quintus Ennius
#36. 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.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#37. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#38. Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.
Quintus Curtius
#39. The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#40. 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.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#41. No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
Quintus Ennius
#42. Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#43. 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
#46. I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#47. He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
#48. A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#49. Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius
#50. Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#52. I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#53. He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
#54. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#55. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#56. It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#59. How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?
Quintus Ennius
#61. The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#63. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
#64. The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#65. A good artist must be good at many things.
Rick Riordan
#66. The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
Quintus Ennius
#67. Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
Quintus Ennius
#68. I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#69. He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#70. I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.
Quintus Ennius
#71. The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
Quintus Ennius
