C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Quintus Curtius Rufus
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. 1 Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. 2 Fear makes men believe the worst. 3 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 predestinated. 4 Habit is stronger than nature. 5 It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. 6 Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue cannot reach it. 7 Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. 8 Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. 9 Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. 10 When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. 11
