Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Moral letters to Lucilius (№ 434765)

If we wanted to understand the causes of our fear, we would be convinced that some of them exist, while others seem to us. We are not afraid of death, but of thoughts about death - after all, we are always two steps away from death itself. So, if death is terrible, then one must always be in fear: are we ever delivered from it?