Rede redt – Epicurus

Just as children quail in the blinding dark and are fearful of all, so we in the light of day are often terrified by things that are no more to be feared than what children tremble at in the dark and think are going to happen. This darkling terror in the mind must then be routed not by the sun’s rays, not by the bright shafts of day, but by the observation and rational inspection of nature. (Bron: George K. Strodach, Epicurus: The Art of Happiness, Penguin Classics, p. 133-134.