"He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties."

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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

— Baruch Spinoza