Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
- The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
- When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
- Habit is stronger than nature.
- Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
- He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
- Fear makes men believe the worst.
- The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.
- A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
- A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
- Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
- 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…
- A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
- Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
- Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.