"The expectation is a hundred times more torturous than the reality, and the threat is more terrible to me than the blow. As soon as trouble occurs, everything that is the product of imagination is stripped away from it, and only what is really real remains.
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Author
Jean Jacques RousseauAll Translations
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English
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The expectation is a hundred times more torturous than the reality, and the threat is more terrible to me than the blow. As soon as trouble occurs, everything that is the product of imagination is stripped away from it, and only what is really real remains.
"Hungarian
"A várakozás százszor gyötrelmesebb, mint a valóság, és a fenyegetés szörnyűbb nekem, mint a csapás. Mihelyt bekövetkezik a baj, lefoszlik róla mindaz, ami a képzelet szüleménye, s csak annyi marad, amennyi csakugyan valóságos."