“Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.”
Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
IV, 3, 23.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
“Power is the near neighbour of necessity.”
As quoted in Aurea Carmina (8) by Hierocles of Alexandria, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 356
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