“These are the men whom even they fear who are themselves feared.”
Hi sunt, quos timent etiam qui timentur.
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop
Lib. 5, Ep. 7, sect. 1; vol. 2, p. 187.
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“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
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