Fear (n.) is the mother of morality.
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Fear (n.) has taught us more about men than love: fear wants to divine who the other really is, while love wants to see him as beautiful as possible — and self-deception there is a joy, so we indulge it.
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Fear (n.) is a human being's original and basic feeling: from it everything can be explained, original sin and original virtue.
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Fear (n.) is an evil, apish kobold that leaps on a man's back precisely when he is already bearing the heaviest burden.