A Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.
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