“Let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope.”
Sit caeca futuri
mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book II, line 14 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Henceforth let no woman believe a man's oath, let none believe that a man's speeches can be trustworthy. They, while their mind desires something and longs eagerly to gain it, nothing fear to swear, nothing spare to promise; but as soon as the lust of their greedy mind is satisfied, they fear not then their words, they heed not their perjuries.”
LXIV
Carmina
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Latin poet -84–-54 BCRelated quotes
“Henceforth the majesty of God revere;
Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.”
James Fordyce (1720–1796) British writer and minister
Answer to a Gentleman who apologized to the Author for Swearing. Compare: "Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte" (translated: "I fear God, dear Abner, and I have no other fear"), Jean Racine, Athalie, act i. sc. 1 (1639–1699); "From Piety, whose soul sincere/ Fears God, and knows no other fear", W. Smyth, Ode for the Installation of the Duke of Gloucester as Chancellor of Cambridge.
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Fragment 385, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
Source: Knots Untied (1877), Ch. XVII: "The Fallibility of Ministers", p. 383
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy
“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
Letter to his daughter Constance de Maistre, Lettres, 146
Letters
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose
Variant: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Source: The Name of the Rose