Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

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

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

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

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

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

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

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

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

Habit is stronger than nature.

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

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

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

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