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Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. - [Proverbs] Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. - [Danger] Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite. - [Proverbs] Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] - IX, 9, 12 [Haste : Proverbs] When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. [Lat., Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 10, 10) [Fear] It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 10, 27) [Fate] Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 14, 19) [Reason] 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.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 14, 20) [Fortune] 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.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 16, 17) [Fear] Fear makes men believe the worst. [Lat., Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 3, 22) [Fear] Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 3, 23) [Necessity] Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IX, 5, 6) [Despair] 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. [Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (V, 11, 10) [Evolution] Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (V, 5, 21) [Habit] A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 3, 11) [Fire] A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 4, 13) [Patriotism] Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 11, 10) [Virtue] The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 14) [Dogs] A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 4, 13) [Cowards] The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 4, 13) [Silence : Proverbs] Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 5) [Posterity] He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. [Lat., Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 8) [Folly : Trees] That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VIII, 8, 11) [Gratitude] 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.] - De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (X, 1, 40) [Prosperity]
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