True wisdom is timeless.

Here are some suggestions given by Seneca, almost 2000 years ago, on how to deal with fears in life.

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"There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

We cross our bridge of worries many a times in our minds before we even come across it.

And often, this bridge doesn't even exist in reality.

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"What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you."

Don't suffer unduly in your mind even before the event. The event might not happen.

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"It is likely that some troubles will befall us. And even though it is ordained to be, what does it avail to run out to meet your suffering?"

Troubles, if they are meant to come, will come soon enough. But why prolong them by living them even before they arrive?

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Problems, in reality, have limits.

Problems, in our minds, have no limits.

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If there exists no solution to your fears, what good will worrying do.

If there exists a solution to your fears, what good will worrying do.

In the latter case, stop worrying and start acting instead.

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