At the approach of danger there are
always two voices that speak with equal power in the human soul: one very
reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of
escaping it; the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing
and painful to think of the danger, since it is not in man's power to foresee
everything and avert the general course of events, and it is therefore better
to disregard what is painful till it comes, and to think about what is
pleasant. In solitude a man generally listens to the first voice, but in
society to the second.
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Book X, Chapter XVII
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