Lucretius Quotes about Children

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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.

Lucretius

Children, Dark, Law

"On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 55 - 61 (tr. Rouse),

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

Lucretius

Children, Men, Names

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.164, Psychology Press