(September 14, 2015 at 10:09 am)vorlon13 Wrote: In our moments of solitary despair, it should serve to further sadden us . . .
No it should not. As Epicurus stated:
Quote:Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation.
http://www.epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html
Words to live by.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.