Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
Verified source: Meditations, Book 7, Section 8
This is Aurelius at his most reassuring. The anxiety about tomorrow is always worse than tomorrow itself, because tomorrow you will have your full faculties — the same mind, the same resources, the same capacity for problem-solving that you have right now. The future version of you is not helpless. They are you, with more information.
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