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“ Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Lord Byron
“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
Lord Byron
“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.”
Sophocles
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
Sophocles
“To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.”
Sophocles
“A fearful man is always hearing things.”
Sophocles
“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.”
Sophocles
“My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
Franz Kafka
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”
Ovid
“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”
Ovid
“An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”
Ovid
“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
Ovid
“Love is full of anxious fears.”
Ovid
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare
“Death is a fearful thing.”
William Shakespeare
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
William Shakespeare
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“The strongest passion is fear.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Jean de La Fontaine
