François de La Rochefoucauld - Fear Quotes

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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much, yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire. It is unfortunate to have a satirical turn without affecting to be pleased or without loving to jest.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done, as the fear of consequences.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hope and fear go arm in arm: there is no fear without hope, no hope without fear.

François de La Rochefoucauld