Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
I am my nearest neighbour.
One who is allowed to sin, sins less
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.