“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.