If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.