Quintus Curtius > Quotes

“Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.”
― Quintus Curtius, Pantheon: Adventures In History, Biography, And The Mind

“I don’t know what is in the hearts of evil men. But I know what is in the heart of a good man, and it is horrible.”
― Quintus Curtius, Thirty Seven: Essays On Life, Wisdom, And Masculinity

“For often even the sad can become happy by displaying strength and firmness; they are not made happy by lightheartedness, nor by frivolity, laughing, or joking, which is the companion of shallowness.”
― Quintus Curtius, On Moral Ends

“Scala separates the “goods” (i.e., the good things which make life happy) of this world into three classes: goods of the body, goods of the soul, and a third category of what he calls “external goods.”
― Quintus Curtius, Pantheon: Adventures In History, Biography, And The Mind