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Let fear be
defined as a painful or troubled feeling caused by the impression of an imminent
evil that causes destruction or pain; for men do not fear all evils, for
instance, becoming unjust or slow-witted, but only such as involve great pain or
destruction, and only if they appear to be not far off but near at hand and
threatening, for men do not fear things that are very remote; all know that they
have to die, but as death is not near at hand, they are indifferent.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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