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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Mind, Evil, Friend

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha

Death, Lived, Wisely

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius

Government, Tiger, Oppressive

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

Life, Time, Fear

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Cannot, Loved, Both

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Done, Vengeance, Injury

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

Time, Business, Making

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

Change, Time, Fear

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, History

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Done, Cannot

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

Death, Away, Until

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Together, Two, Difficult

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell

Nothing, May, After

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Four, Thousand, Newspapers

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

Business, Honest, Modern

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Declared, Concealed, Hatreds

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Luke Ford

Life, Anger, Acting

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos

Life, Power, Wish

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus

Men, Place, Another

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil

Him, Happen, Another

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid

Understand, Medicine, Consumed

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Fear, Russians, Ike

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Women, Men, Fear

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith

Conscience, Virtue, Subject

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin

Why, Public, General

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Great, Everything, Enthusiasm

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Saint Francis de Sales

Love, Fear, Loved

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Adrienne Rich

Women, Between, Force

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan

Around, While, Loved

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