When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility. Twilight of the Idols
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks. Eviradnus
He who is everywhere is nowhere. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
“He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?” Republic
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