A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] Votes: 6
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. Votes: 5
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. Votes: 4
Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant Votes: 3
Fear makes men believe the worst. Votes: 3
Habit is stronger than nature. Votes: 3
Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] Votes: 3
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] Votes: 3
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. Votes: 3
Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite. Votes: 3
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.] Votes: 2
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. Votes: 0
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. Votes: 0
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] Votes: 0
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet Votes: 0
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 predestined. Votes: 0
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. Votes: 0
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.] Votes: 0
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.] Votes: 0
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. Votes: 0
Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. Votes: 0
Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. Votes: 0
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.] Votes: 0
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. Votes: 0
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. Votes: 0
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.] Votes: 0
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. Votes: 0