“With the lights out, it's less dangerous.”
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American musician and artist 1967–1994Related quotes
Book I, 1.144-[3]
Variant translation: We must realize, too, that, both for cities and for individuals, it is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
As translated by Rex Warner (1954).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.”
Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 23
Context: Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
“Blood!… Blood!… That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“The world has become too dangerous for anything less than utopias.”
John R. Piatt (1969) in: New York Times, September 2, 1969.
“War is like an actress, ever more dangerous and ever less photogenic”
“It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.”
Il n'est pas si dangereux de faire du mal à la plupart des hommes que de leur faire trop de bien.
Maxim 238.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“It was a light, brief kiss, but it was less an ending than a promise, and he was happy.”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 31, “Departures” (p. 429)