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By Seneca
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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- Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, with an English translation by Richard M. Gummere, vol. 1 (Epistles I to LXV), 1917 · Letter XIII, section 4, p. 75
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- William Heinemann, London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1917 (Loeb Classical Library)
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From Letters to Lucilius (Epistulae Morales), letter XIII, section 4, in Richard M. Gummere's English translation (Loeb Classical Library, vol. 1, London and New York, 1917). Seneca wrote the letters in his last years. Seneca wrote in Latin, so this is the translator's wording.