... 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.
LucretiusAnd part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
LucretiusLook at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LucretiusAssuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.
Lucretius