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For fear is nothing but a giving up of the helps that come from reason;
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and hope, defeated by this inward weakness, prefers ignorance of what causes the torment.
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But throughout the night, which was really powerless and which came upon them from the recesses of powerless Hades, they all slept the same sleep,
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and now were driven by monstrous specters, and now were paralyzed by their souls' surrender; for sudden and unexpected fear overwhelmed them.
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And whoever was there fell down, and thus was kept shut up in a prison not made of iron;