We suffer more in imagination than in reality – Explained
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality – Explained
Worry is a woeful misuse of the imagination.
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As the Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher Seneca put it, “We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
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Seneca’s words of wisdom: “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
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Epictetus, himself a former slave who knew something about the weight of others' expectations, taught that we suffer more in imagination than in reality
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“We suffer more in imagination than in reality” –Seneca