Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.