“Fear speaks degenerate minds.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 13
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