No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Custom reconciles us to every thing.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever…

First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't; If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't. But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,…

Fervent bella horrida, fervent ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis non simplex natura hominis.

Nothing irritates us [Fascists] so much as to be taken for pillars of order. Nothing so exasperates us as the people who come to us through fear of Communism. …