| [No. 397] | Thursday, June 5, 1712 | Addison |
—Dolor ipse disertum
Fecerat—
Ovid.
the Stoick Philosophers discard all Passions in general, they will not allow a Wise Man so much as to pity the Afflictions of another.
If thou seest thy Friend in Trouble
, says
Epictetus
,
thou mayst put on a Look of Sorrow, and condole with him, but take care that thy Sorrow be not real