Why should we fear and avoid what has no being? If our fear is vain, it is certain that fear itself is evil, and that the heart is groundlessly disturbed and tortured. And this evil is the worse for the fact that it has no being to be afraid of.
 Saint Augustine, Confessions (401). copy citation

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Author Saint Augustine
Source Confessions
Topic evil fear
Date 401
Language English
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Note Translated by Henry Chadwick
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