CHAPTER XIX.

THAT WE LAMENT NOT FROM WITHIN.

When thou seest one lamenting in grief because his son is gone abroad, or because he hath lost his goods, look to it that thou be not carried away by the appearance to think that he hath truly fallen into misfortune, in outward things. But be the thought at hand, _It is not the thing itself that afflicts this man--since there are others whom it afflicts not--but the opinion he has about it_. And so far as speech, be not slow to fit thyself to his mood, and even if so it be to lament with him. But have a care that thou lament not also from within.