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Audacity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. DANTON during the French Revolution. La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois. Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. CRÉBILLON during the French Revolution. Und setzet ihr nicht das Leben ein, Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein. If you do not dare to die you will never win life.— SCHILLER — Wallenstein's Lager.

XI. Chorus. Wodas Herz reden darf braucht es keiner Vorbereitung. When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.— LESSING — Minna von Barnhelm. V. 4.

Questa lor tracotanza non è nuova. This audacity of theirs is not new.— DANTE — Inferno. VIII. 124.

B. Damals war nichts heilig, als das Schöne. In days of yore [in ancient Greece] nothing was sacred but the beautiful.— SCHILLER — Die Götter Griechenlands. St. 6.

Das ist das Loos des Schönen auf der Erde! That is the lot of the beautiful on earth.— SCHILLER — Wallenstein's Tod. IV.