Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
Work makes a callus against grief.
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]
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