| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47825 |
| QUOTATION: | One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marquis de Sade (17401814), French author. Dolmancé, in Dialogue the Fifth, Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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