To reckon dangers too curiously, to hearken too intently for the threat that runs through all the winning music of the world, to hold back the hand from the rose because of the thorn, and from life because of death: this it is to be afraid of Pan.
过分细算危险,过分专注于世界动人乐声中潜藏的威胁,因有刺而不敢触碰玫瑰,因有死亡而不敢走进生活:这就是对潘神的恐惧。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Pan’s Pipes —