“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear…”
“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear…”

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“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.”

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

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