Julius Caesar on fear

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

Mike Tysonborn 1966

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself⁠—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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