“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.”

“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”

“People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“Laughter is poison to fear.”

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great...”

“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”

“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”

“If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.”

“If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.”

“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination t...”