“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.”

— Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (February 23, 1890)
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Anton Chekhov 222

Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“The world and history will take from Russia much more than Russian missiles will take from Ukraine. Every lost life is an argument for Ukrainians and other free nations to perceive Russia exclusively as a threat generation after generation.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

2022, We, the world and history will take from Russia much more than Russian missiles will take from Ukraine (18 April 2022)]

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

“Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Samuel Kercheval (1816)
1810s
Variant: Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

“There are more things, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears
Original: (la) Plura sunt, quae nos terrent quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus.