"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
"Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be."
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Source: Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV). Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.
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