“The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.”
Publilius Syrus
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Most of the time when you're afraid of something, you're not seeing it clearly.”
Steve Maraboli
“Never anticipate evils; or, because you cannot have things exactly as you wish, make them out worse than they are, through mere spite and willfulness.”
William Hazlitt
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
Seneca
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
Norman Cousins