We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often de

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. – Charles Caleb Colton

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. – Plato

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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