An idea from Letters from a Stoic

Let not the eyes be dry when we have lost a friend, nor let them overflow. We may weep, but we must not wail. The man giving this advice had once wept without control for a younger friend, because he never imagined that friend could die first.

From Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

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