Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

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

Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.

Just as in ailing bodies, my soldiers, physicians leave nothing which will do harm, so let us cut away whatever stands in the way of our rule. Often to have ignored a tiny spark has roused a great conflagration. Nothing is safely despised in an enemy; one whom you have scorned you make stronger by neglect.

Sicut in corporibus aegris, milites, nihil quod nociturum est medici relinquunt, sic nos quidquid obstat imperio recidamus. Parva sæpe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium. Nil tuto in hoste despicitur; quem spreveris, valentiorem neglentia facias.

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

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

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

Habit is stronger than nature.

Consuetudo natura potentior est.

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

Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.

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

Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.

Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.

Sæpe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.