“He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]”
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[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 363]

“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.
Book II, line 14 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Fear: The History of a Political Idea

“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
Source: Paradise Regained by John Milton

Odysseus, Book VIII, line 560
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, vol. 4, no. 16, December, 1996

“If a man would be righteous, let him depart from a court. Virtue is incompatible with absolute power. He who is ashamed to commit cruelty must always fear it.”
Exeat aula
qui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestas
non coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.
Book VIII, line 493 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia