A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Qui craint de souffrir souffre déjà de ce qu’il craint.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Un hombre que sufre antes de que sea necesario, sufre más de lo necesario. SÉNECA

a misfortune cannot surprise a man who has already feared it.

He who learns must suffer.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.

When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

He who blushes is already guilty.

For he, who sees a need, but waits to be asked, is already set on cruel refusal.