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Fear

When a match has equal partners then I fear not. – Aeschylus

Excessive fear is always powerless. – Aeschylus

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. – Yousef Munayyer

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. – Samuel Goldwyn

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. – Jean de La Fontaine

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. – Tori Amos

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves. – Bryant H. McGill

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. – Gerald Jampolsky

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. – James Joyce

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

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. – Elias Canetti

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. – Henry A. Wallace

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. – Umberto Eco

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. – Emile M. Cioran

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! – Bryant H. McGill

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? – Rand Paul

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. – Lord Chesterfield

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. – Douglas Horton