“Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?"
"Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
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“Do ye not think ye are making war on Hyrcanian tigers or facing angry Libyan lions?”
Nonne Hyrcanis bellare putatis
tigribus, aut saeuos Libyae contra ire leones?
Source: Thebaid, Book IX, Line 15 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

Source: Bedtime for Frances

“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”

Quote in Courbet's letter to Victor Hugo, 28 November 1864; as cited in Chu, Letters, p. 249; quoted in 'Paysages de Mer - Courbet's The Wave', by Anthony White https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/paysages-de-mer-courbets-the-wave/
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