"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
"No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us."
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Source: Epistolæ Ad Lucilium by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.
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