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Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41–54 AD) or Vespasian. His only surviving work, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, or Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete.

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Also known as: Quintus Curtius

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Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue cannot reach it.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.

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

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits is eternal.

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

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.

It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.

But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

The deepest rivers flow with the least noise.

But in times of tumult haste is even slow.

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