“There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.”
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Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair
“It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.”
“See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.”
“Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.”
Source: The Aeneid