There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Safe is the land, insecure the sea, greedy the profit
The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber