stoic most fear grows in imagination before reality.

Key Takeaway: Fear Less Clearly.

Fear Less Clearly. Most fear grows in imagination before reality.. Let that determine what you do and say and think.'. This practice appears throughout Stoic literature, most famously in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and Seneca's Letters -- a source of clarity, urgency, and gratitude, not morbidity. • Most fear grows in imagination before reality.

As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, Fear Less Clearly.

— Oriens

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