Quotes from Quintus Curtius Rufus

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

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

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

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

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.