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FEAR:

FEAR: In extreme danger fear feels no pity. -Julius Caesar I will show you fear in a handful of dust. -T.S.Eliot:The Waste Land He that fears you present will hate you absent -Thomas Fuller We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -Livy He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear. -Seneca

FAME:

FAME: All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. -Marcus Aurellius From Fame to infamy is a beaten road. -Thomas Fuller Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. -William Hazlitt Seldom comes Glorie till a man be dead. -Robert Herrick

FAITH:

FAITH: To believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere Philosophy. -Thomas Browne In the affairs of this world, men are saved, not be faith, but by the want of it. -Benjamin Franklin Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -Hebrews 11:1 Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. -O.W.Holmes If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of scepticism. -Nietzche

FAILURE:

FAILURE: There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. -T.H.Huxley I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. -John Keats A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. -Elmer G.Letterman Failure is more often from want of energy than want of capital. -Daniel Webster

EGOTISM:

EGOTISM: He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk of ourselves at all. -La Rochefoucauld It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he wishes to be esteemed. -Vauvenargues To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -Oscar Wilde