Enemy Quote by Livy

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

— Dan Brown

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

— Alan Paton

Fear makes men believe the worst.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

— Anonymous

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

— Philip Sidney

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

— Mary Stewart

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

— Luc de Clapiers

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

— Ouida

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

— Aristotle

Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction

— Heinrich Harrer

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

— Anonymous

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one…

— Sigmund Freud