You’re frightening me” “be frightened. Sometimes its very intelligent to be afraid”

Is there anything more frightening than people?

We are what we fear in others

There is, it seems to me, a certain type of man who is terrified of the idea of a woman wielding power, of any sort; the type of man who is willing to dress up his terror in any sort of trappings to legitimise it.

The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.

When your opponent fears you, then’s the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Change scares people. Makes them dangerous.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn’t be exciting if they didn’t.

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

These are the men whom even they fear who are themselves feared.

Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money.

Why should one be afraid of something merely because it is strange?

A man must stand in fear of just those things
that truly have the power to do us harm,
of nothing else, for nothing else is fearsome. - Beatrice (Canto 2)