“In love the only safety is in flight.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 12: Religion and Science.
“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”
Source: The Cider House Rules
“Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.”
As quoted in Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.
“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
Source: Something to Tell You
“There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.”
Source: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 9 “the desert, briefly, and you” (p. 231)