“There are more things, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

—  Seneca the Younger, book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears
Original: (la) Plura sunt, quae nos terrent quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus.

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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

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