“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!”
“Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.”
“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as this one—was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine.”