La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
During the French Revolution; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
G. T. W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm
“Fear first made gods in the world.”
Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 661. These words also appear in a fragmentary poem attributed to Petronius (Fragm. 22. 1).
“War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.”
“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor.
Maxim 63
Variant translation: "Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back."
Sentences
“I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 35 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“There is a crack in every thing God has made.”
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/
Context: Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the Dragon’s blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it always is. There is a crack in every thing God has made.
“God has made Himself knowable through the Bible.”
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
1880s, Inaugural address (1881)
Context: The emancipated race has already made remarkable progress. With unquestioning devotion to the Union, with a patience and gentleness not born of fear, they have "followed the light as God gave them to see the light." They are rapidly laying the material foundations of self-support, widening their circle of intelligence, and beginning to enjoy the blessings that gather around the homes of the industrious poor. They deserve the generous encouragement of all good men. So far as my authority can lawfully extend they shall enjoy the full and equal protection of the Constitution and the laws.
§ 16
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
