Francis Bacon Quotes on Fear
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
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It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.
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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.