"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suf..."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

- Seneca

Letters from a Stoic

This is a piercing analysis of anxiety. Seneca observes that the vast majority of our suffering is self-inflicted, born from imagining negative futures rather than dealing with present realities. The key to tranquility is to rein in our imagination and ground ourselves in what is actually happening.

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