“It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”
“The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom.”
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
“From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.”
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
“This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved”