Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite..

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites..

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

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

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et for….

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

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

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

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….

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

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.].

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

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man..

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

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

Habit is stronger than nature..

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition..

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule..

Fear makes men believe the worst..

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death..