It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“I stood still an hour or thereabouts without trespassing on our orders (for so long the caravan was in passing the gate), to look… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
