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— Pliny the Elder"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."
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Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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