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“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
“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
“ 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
“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“My fear is my only courage”
— Bob Marley
“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. ”
— George Washington Bush
“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. ”
— George Washington Bush
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. ”
— George Washington Bush
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. ”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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