"Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est."
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Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. — 1, 40. — J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward (1882) p. 556
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Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41–54 AD) or Vespasian. His only surviving work, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, or Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete. His work is fluidly written, and while superficial study reveals the authors errors regarding geography, chronology and technical military knowledge,
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