Affair Quote by Quintus Curtius Rufus

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

— Plautus

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

— Plautus

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic every-day virtues…

— Bertrand Russell

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis;…

— Sallust

“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

— Sallust

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what…

— David Hume

“Routine comes down like twilight on a harsh landscape, softening it until it is tolerable. The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim to pursue…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

— William Shakespeare