The Quiet Torment — Seneca Stoic Journal

In March you wrote down everything you were afraid of. Read it now. Almost none of it happened.

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
— Seneca
Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII. Translated by Richard M. Gummere, 1917. We check every line against a primary source.

Fears grow in the dark. On paper, they shrink.

Write the worry down. Check back in a month.

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