A Quote by Quintilian

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Quintilian

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Quintilian
Roman - Educator
35 - 95

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

William Lloyd Garrison

Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.

Jonathan Maberry

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Peter Drucker

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

Piero Scaruffi

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

Alexis de Tocqueville

. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?

Allen Drury

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

Jean de la Bruyere

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Margaret Atwood

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

Pablo Picasso

Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent.