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