Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

• The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Latin, Rivers, Sound

  Quintus Curtius Rufus, John Rowe Workman (1956). “Quintus Curtius [History of Alexander]”

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Fuego, Chispas, Descuidado

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• Haste is slow.
  [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Date prisa

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• The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Superstitions, Rulers

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• Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Doe, Reason, Lasting

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 14, 19,

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• Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Powerful, Men, Threatening

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 23,

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Hecho

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,

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• Fear makes men believe the worst.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Fear, Believe, Men

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 3, 22,

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Weak, Danger, Position

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• 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.]

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Fashion, Long, Vices

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• Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Father, Pay, Sin

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 618-19, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, VII, 5, 1922.

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• Habit is stronger than nature.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Stronger, Habit

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 5, 21,

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• 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.]

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Miedo, Hombres, Mente

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• Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
  [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Virtue, Can Not

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Tree, Doe, Looks

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 8,

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• A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Dog, Bark, Bites

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• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Despair, Incentives, Honorable Death

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Dog, Bark, Bites

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Strong, May, Weak

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• Una chispa descuidada a menudo ha levantado una conflagración.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Fuego, Chispas, Descuidado

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 272-73, De Rebus Gestis Alexandria Magni, VI, 3, 11, 1922.

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Country, Men, Brave

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Latin, Doctors, Disease

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• 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.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Law, Long, Association

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Fate, Comfort, Knows

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• A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Cowardice, Bark, Bites

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,

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