11 For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, and, being pressed hard by conscience, always has added forecasts of the worst. (WEB) 12 For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the help which reason offers; (WEB) 13 and from within, the expectation of being less prefers ignorance of the cause that brings the torment. (WEB)
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