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"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."

"The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake."

"I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify."
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."


"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."


"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."


"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."


"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"


"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."
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