Seneca: Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Reflection
This is not a claim that your fear is silly. It is an invitation to separate the event from the forecast. Write the feared outcome in one sentence, then write what has actually happened so far.
Source record
- Author
- Seneca
- Original source
- Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII
- Original date
- c. 65 AD
- Edition used
- Trans. Richard M. Gummere, 1917 — public domain
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