... 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.

... 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.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.