Best 17 quotes of Quintus Curtius Rufus on MyQuotes

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

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

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

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

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.

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

Habit is stronger than nature.

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

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

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

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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

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

Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

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.]