“The weak must be bold cautiously.”
Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords
Siuan Sanche
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)
“Bold, but cautiously bold.”
Audace si, ma cautamente audace.
Canto XVIII, stanza 57
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Italian poet 1544–1595Related quotes
“Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
Source: Midwinter (1923), Ch. X
“There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.”
Jim Butcher book Academ's Fury
Source: Academ's Fury
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 87, “Boldness” (p. 677)
“Fortune favors the bold.”
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Variant translations:
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune helps the daring.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Compare:
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
Fortune is given to brave men.
Ennius, Annales, 257
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Line 284
