audacity quotes

Drunkenness is a joy reserved for the Gods: so do men partake of it impiously, and so are they very properly punished for their audacity.

-Cabell,James Branch
  Jurgen, ch.28.

Le tact dans l'audace c'est de savoirjusqu'o  u' on peut aller trop loin. Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far.

-Cocteau,Jean
  Le Coq et l'Arlequin.

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