To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

It is better to be feared than loved.

I much fear the French government will have reason sorely to repent their extravagant caution with regard to infringing the liberty of the press; it is less dangerous for a government to be feared, or even hated, than despised, and I do not see how a government which suffers itself day after day without remission to be insulted in the most outrageous manner with the most perfect impunity can avoid in the long run falling into disrepute and contempt.

Distrust & caution are the parents of security.

As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

It's better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is,the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.

I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.