“With the lights out, it's less dangerous.”
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Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
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.”
Herman Melville book White-Jacket
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!”
Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“The world has become too dangerous for anything less than utopias.”
John R. Platt (1918–1992) American physicist
John R. Piatt (1969) in: New York Times, September 2, 1969.
“War is like an actress, ever more dangerous and ever less photogenic”
Robert Capa (1913–1954) American photographer
“It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
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.”
Larry Niven book Dream Park
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 31, “Departures” (p. 429)