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. Quintus Curtius Rufus More Quotes by Quintus Curtius Rufus More Quotes From Quintus Curtius Rufus The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. Quintus Curtius Rufus sound latin rivers A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. Quintus Curtius Rufus neglected sparks fire Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. Quintus Curtius Rufus lasting reason doe The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. Quintus Curtius Rufus fashion vices long Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. Quintus Curtius Rufus sin pay father Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. Quintus Curtius Rufus threatening powerful men A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet Quintus Curtius Rufus bark bites dog Fear makes men believe the worst. Quintus Curtius Rufus fear men believe When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. Quintus Curtius Rufus fear mind men The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. Quintus Curtius Rufus rulers superstitions Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. Quintus Curtius Rufus can-not virtue When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. Quintus Curtius Rufus made Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. Quintus Curtius Rufus honorable-death incentives despair It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. Quintus Curtius Rufus fate comfort knows Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite. Quintus Curtius Rufus bark bites dog Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. Quintus Curtius Rufus strong weak may Haste is slow. Quintus Curtius Rufus haste Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant Quintus Curtius Rufus doctors disease latin Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. Quintus Curtius Rufus position weak danger He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. Quintus Curtius Rufus doe tree looks
