Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; Adversity is not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- Winston Churchill
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
- Marianne Williamson
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- Eric Hoffer
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
- Sophocles
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
- Anatole France
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
- Thomas Fuller
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
- Michel de Montaigne
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
- Rainer Maria Rilke