Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
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Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (February 13, 1707 – April 12, 1777) was a French novelist.
Quotes[edit]
- La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
- Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
- During the French Revolution; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
- Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plume.
- No gall has ever poisoned my pen.
- Discours de Reception; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
- Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.
- Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.
- Tite et Bérénice, I, 5.