Your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

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Men, like horses, are frightened by the shadows of things to come. Some men, like the horse, are frightened by their own shadow. These men are cowards.

Source: The Inferno

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