More from Virgil
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
VirgilVirgil Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
VirgilVirgil She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
VirgilVirgil When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
VirgilVirgil Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
VirgilVirgil They can because they think they can.
VirgilVirgil Fortune sides with him who dares.
VirgilVirgil No benefits can be expected from war.
VirgilVirgil Trust one who has gone through it.
VirgilVirgil Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VirgilVirgil Time is flying never to return.
VirgilVirgil The greatest wealth is health.
VirgilVirgil Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
VirgilVirgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
VirgilVirgil The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
VirgilVirgil Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
VirgilVirgil
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on fear
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
ThucydidesThucydides I’m much more of a risk taker. I’m more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don’t. I probably should.
Jessica AlbaJessica Alba I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.
Carlos SantanaCarlos Santana The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.
Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
ThucydidesThucydides What shall he fear that does not fear death.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
SophoclesSophocles
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