Letter 110 — On True and False Riches (§6)

“Let us account it worth while to look closely at the matter; then it will be clear how fleeting, how unsure, and how harmless are the things which we fear. The disturbance in our spirits is similar to that which Lucretius detected: Like boys who cower frightened in the dark, So grown-ups in the light of day feel fear. What, then? Are we not more foolish than any child, we who “in the light of day feel fear”?”