"Men always fear things which move by themselves," the ghola said.
I spent my time fearing death and things worse than death.
I would rather be mad than to fear things like that.
I am too old and wise to fear such things, the maester told himself.
"I fear worse things even than the imprisoning of the king's brother."
Instead, there may be a genetic predisposition to learn to fear certain things more easily than others.
He had to stop fearing things that had not yet happened, and think of a way to prevent them from coming to be.
When you talk about fear, I fear big things in life.
Furthermore, the men here are afraid, so we must show them quickly that they need not fear such things.
But it is possible to fear these more, or less, and again to fear things that are not terrible as if they were.