Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces.
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He who fears not death fears not a threat.
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Don Gom?s, act II, scene iPierre Corneille
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Qui punit le vaincu ne craint point le vainqueur.
Pierre Corneille
Comme on craint peu de choquer la vanité, on arrive fort vite en Italie au ton de l'intimité, et ? dire des choses personnelles.
Stendhal
No, as none of these, but instead a point in space, a point hung precise as the point where burning must end, never launched, never to fall. And what is the specific shape whose center of gravity is the Brennschluss Point? Don't jump at an infinite number of possible shapes. There's only one. It is most likely an interface between one order of things and another. There's a Brennschluss point for every firing site. They still hang up there, all of them, a constellation waiting to have a 13th sign of the Zodiac named for it...
Thomas Pynchon
In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.
Karl Marx
To form a truly free constitution, that’s to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what’s at stake…
Jean-Paul Marat
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