Chapter XVI

from The Enchiridion · tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1865)

Chapter XVI

When you see a person weeping in sorrow, take care not to be carried away by the impression that he is in the midst of external ills. Be ready to say, it is not the accident that distresses this person, but the view he takes of it. Yet do not disdain to sympathize with him, and even, if occasion offer, to lament with him.

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