If one acts like a man in fear before the cause of fear is so near, one is never filled with fear when that cause actually arrives. And from the fear of a person, who always acts with "carlessness, very great fear criginates.
न भयं विद्यते राजन् भीतस्यानागते भये॥ अभीतस्य च विश्रम्भात् सुमहज्जायते भवम्।