In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.