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Quintus Curtius Rufus

(0099–0049) Historian

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Quintus Curtius Rufus was a historian, best known for Historia Alexandri Magni.

Quick Facts About Quintus Curtius Rufus

Born: November 30, 0099
Died: November 30, 0049
Profession: Historian
Notable works: Historia Alexandri Magni

About Quintus Curtius Rufus

Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, likely active in the 1st century AD. He is known solely for his surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, more fully titled Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt. Significant portions of the original work are missing.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Quintus Curtius Rufus

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor,…

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Fear

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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

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Fire

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Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

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Death

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

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Danger

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

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Doe

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Habit is stronger than nature.

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Habit

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

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Fire

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Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

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Habit

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Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

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Father

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The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

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Inspirational

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Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

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Bark

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

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Fear

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

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Cures

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Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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Devices

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Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae…

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Cautious

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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

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Flow

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

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Abode

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

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Cybersecurity

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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,…

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Affair

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

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Comfort

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

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Believe

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

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Bark

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Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

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Doe

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

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Bark

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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…

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Can not

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