A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. - Quintus Curtius Rufus
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
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
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et for…
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. - Quintus Curtius Rufus
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
Fear makes men believe the worst. - Quintus Curtius Rufus
Fear makes men believe the worst.
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. - Quintus Curtius Rufus
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. - Quintus Curtius Rufus
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.
Habit is stronger than nature. - Quintus Curtius Rufus
Habit is stronger than nature.
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