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- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
- Krishnamurti
- I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- To him who is in fear everything rustles.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Acrisius
- Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
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