Always, to every truth that looks, in face, like lies, one ought (quite firmly) bar the lip lest, guiltless, what one says should still bring shame. - Dante Alighieri

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

"And he began, "What chance or destiny
has brought you here before your final day?
And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?"
"Up there in life beneath the quiet stars
I lost my way," I answered, "in a valley,
before I'd reached the fullness of my age.
I turned my shoulders on it yesterday:
this soul appeared as I was falling back,
and by the road through Hell he leads me home."
"Follow your star and you will never fail
to find your glorious port," he said to me"

Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Diff'ring wherein from the idolater,

But he that worships one, a hundred ye