“And I fear my fear is greater than my faith”

His famous response to his judges upon his conviction as a heretic, prior to his transfer to the civil authorities for execution. (16 February 1600); as quoted by Gaspar Schopp of Breslau in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen; as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno00.htm <br class="br">Variant translations:<br>Perhaps your fear in passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.<br>It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.<br>You pronounce sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.

Variant: I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back.
Source: Beastly

Original: What's your?

Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.
Act III, scene xi
The Mandrake (1524)

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Section 3 “...contend in vain?”, Chapter 3 (p. 187)
The Gods Themselves (1972)

VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference