Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

Habit is stronger than nature.

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

Fear makes men believe the worst.

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

- Quintus Curtius Rufus