I give this advice to you, do not be miserable before the time, since those troubles which you have feared as if already overhanging, perhaps will never come, certainly have not yet come.

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman statesman, philosopher, playwright [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]

Moral Letters to Lucilius [Epistulae morales ad Lucilium], letter 13, sec. 4