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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Audacity |
| La crainte fit les dieux; l’audace a fait les rois. Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. Crébillon during the French Revolution. | 1 |
| Questa lor tracotanza non è nuova. This audacity of theirs is not new. Dante—Inferno. VIII. 124. | 2 |
| De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. Danton during the French Revolution. (See also Carlyle—The French Revolution. Vol. II. 3. 4.) | 3 |
| Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas. The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. Horace—Carmina. I. 3. 25. | 4 |
| Audendo magnus tegitur timor. By audacity, great fears are concealed. Lucan—Pharsalia. IV. 702. | 5 |
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