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Official page of Fortress of the Mind, the website of writer and translator Quintus Curtius. Our pu He can also be found on Twitter, Soundcloud, and YouTube.

Quintus Curtius is the author of the books "Thirty-Seven," "Pantheon," "Stoic Paradoxes," and "Pathways," and "On Duties." Fortress of the Mind is his website and publishing platform, along with Fortress of the Mind Productions. Quintus is a former active duty officer in the U.S. Marine Corps with deployed service worldwide. He was on active duty for over four years, and a reservist for four more.

He eventually resigned from the reserves in 2000 at the rank of major. After leaving active duty in the USMC, he attended law school, became an attorney, and founded a law firm with another attorney in 2000. Since then he has been practicing as a trial attorney in federal and state courts. He has lived in several countries, speaks several languages, and continues to travel frequently.

05/07/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/07/05/the-role-of-chance-in-human-affairs-the-loss-of-the-kent/

We will relate the terrible loss of the ship Kent, which sailed from the Downs on February 19, 1825. As a so-called East Indiaman (merchant vessels trading with the East Indies), the Kent was boun…

28/06/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/06/28/the-life-of-this-one-is-as-the-death-of-that-one/

The pages of the medieval biographer Ibn Khallikan (II.301) contain the following moral anecdotes related to an obscure poet named Abu Al-Hasan Ibn Bassam, who was known by the surname Al-Bassami.

21/06/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/06/21/do-not-buy-at-such-a-price-only-to-regret-it/

What may at first consideration be an enticing course of action, may take on a much more negative hue after further scrutiny. This was the point of an anecdote related by the Roman writer Aul…

14/06/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/06/14/without-good-leadership-valor-is-wasted/

One of the rules of the nineteenth-century whaling industry was that if a captured whale carcass were lost by its owner, it thereafter became the property of the first ship to recover it. Aft…

07/06/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/06/07/the-tale-of-paches-the-athenian/

In the 1998 film Fallen, one of the characters intones an ominous motto: “What goes around, really goes around.” This is a more emphatic version of the old adage, “Wha…

31/05/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/05/31/the-man-of-virtue-is-a-quiet-insurgent/

It is tempting to believe that our current social problems are uniquely modern, and that they have no analogues to conditions of previous ages. A review of the thoughtful writings of the past show…

24/05/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/05/24/the-greatest-movies-of-2010-to-2020/

I’ve been straining my memory for the past week in an attempt to articulate a dominant ethos of the 2010s. Does one exist? It was a decidedly elusive decade. Our initial impression was that i…

17/05/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/05/17/the-greatest-movies-of-2000-to-2010/

In previous articles here, I’ve submitted my candidates for the best films of the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. The laws of natural progression compel me to move forward with the next deca…

10/05/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/05/10/the-palomares-incident/

We often underestimate the ease with which terrible disasters can accompany our efforts and enterprises. Vigilance tends to lapse with routine; and with time, even the most dangerous cargoes may b…

03/05/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/05/03/to-the-man-of-virtue-all-soil-is-native/

There is a line in Statius’s Thebiad (VIII.320) which reads, Omne homini natale solum. This means, “All soil is native to man.” I think it is appropriate to interpret soil in an …

02/05/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/05/01/sometimes-winning-is-not-enough-podcast/

Sometimes even a decisive victory is not enough. The victory may create entirely new landscapes, obstacles, and challenges that test you to the ultimate limit. There is no such thing as reaching a …

27/04/2025

https://qcurtius.com/2025/04/27/the-books-of-numa-pompilius/

The defilement of a nation’s cultural heritage is among the most odious of crimes. But the offense is especially noxious, and finally unforgivable, when committed by national leaders for thei…

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