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[6] Tanti putemus oculos intendere; iam apparebit, quam brevia, quam incerta, quam tuta timeantur. Talis est animorum nostrorum confusio, qualis Lucretio visa est:
Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis
In tenebris metuunt, ita nos in luce timemus.
Quid ergo ? Non omni puero stultiores sumus qui in luce timemus ?

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.

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