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"He suffers more than is necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"The mind that is anxious about future miseries is miserable now."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"One of the greatest sources of suffering is the anxiety we feel about things that might happen but probably never will."

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