"As a result of a general defect..." - Quote by Julius Caesar
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
More by Julius Caesar
“Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.”
“No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.”
“It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.”
More on Human Nature
“Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.”
“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.”
“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”
More on Fear
“Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.”
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
“My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.”