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De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace. |
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace. |
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. |
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. |
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** Danton during the French Revolution. (See also Carlyle—The French Revolution |
** Danton during the French Revolution. (See also Carlyle—The French Revolution, Volume II. 3. 4.) |
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* Audax omnia perpeti |
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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
- La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
- Translation: Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
- Crébillon, during the French Revolution.
Questa lor tracotanza non è nuova.
This audacity of theirs is not new.
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno. VIII. 124.
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace.
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
- Danton during the French Revolution. (See also Carlyle—The French Revolution, Volume II. 3. 4.)
- Audax omnia perpeti
Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
- Horace, Carmina. I. 3. 25.
Audendo magnus tegitur timor.
By audacity, great fears are concealed.
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia. IV. 702.