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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. His work is fluidly written, and while superficial study reveals the authors errors regarding geography, chronology and technical military knowledge, a detailed study reveals his focusing instead on character and protests against those Emperors of his times whom he considered tyrants.

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Sæpe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.

Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.

Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.

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

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

Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.

Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.

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

Equidem æterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum latentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.

Sed medici quoque graviores morbos asperis remediis curant, et gubernator, ubi nafraugium timet, iactura quidquid servari potest redimit.

Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.

Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.

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

Equidem plura transcribo quam credo; nam nec affirmare sustineo de quibus dubito, nec subducere quae accepi.