" That is especially true,
since our whole life is struggling in the dark.
For just as children in the dead of night
tremble and are afraid of everything,
so we, too, in the daylight, sometimes fear------80
things which should no more frighten us than those
which scare children in the dark, those terrors
they believe will happen. Therefore, this fear,
this darkness in the mind, must be dispelled,
not by the sun’s rays or shafts of daylight,------[60]
but by the face of nature and by reason. "
― Lucretius , The Way Things Are
![Lucretius quote : That is especially true, <br />since our whole life is struggling in the dark.<br />For just as children in the dead of night<br />tremble and are afraid of everything,<br />so we, too, in the daylight, sometimes fear------80<br />things which should no more frighten us than those<br />which scare children in the dark, those terrors<br />they believe will happen. Therefore, this fear,<br />this darkness in the mind, must be dispelled,<br />not by the sun’s rays or shafts of daylight,------[60]<br />but by the face of nature and by reason.](/image/2251625.jpg)