Daniel Defoe

What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.

In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.