"There is no greater comfort in the face of death than mortality itself, none in the face of all those external terrors greater than the fact there are countless dangers here inside us. For what is crazier than fainting at the sound of thunder and crawling below the earth from fear of lightning-flashes? What is more foolish than being afraid of the earth's swaying or of the sudden collapse of mountainsides and invasions of the sea as it races beyond the shoreline, when death is present everywhere and can attack from anywhere, and nothing is too tiny to be able to bring destruction to humankind?"
- Seneca, Natural questions 6.2.6