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" The whole of life but labours in the dark.
For just as children tremble and fear all
In the viewless dark, so even we at times
Dread in the light so many things that be
No whit more fearsome than what children feign,
Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark.
This terror then, this darkness of the mind,
Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,
Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,
But only nature's aspect and her law. "

Lucretius , The Way Things Are


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Lucretius quote : The whole of life but labours in the dark.<br />For just as children tremble and fear all<br />In the viewless dark, so even we at times<br />Dread in the light so many things that be<br />No whit more fearsome than what children feign,<br />Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark.<br />This terror then, this darkness of the mind,<br />Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,<br />Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,<br />But only nature's aspect and her law.