Baruch Spinoza - Fear Quotes

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.

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Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favored by fortune : but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favors, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity.

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There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

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The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but, contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security ; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.

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