An idea from Ethics

A loss hurts less once you see it could not have been kept. In the same way, no one pities an infant, because it cannot speak, walk, or reason, since everyone starts out like that. Seeing things as necessary works on your own griefs too.

From Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

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