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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Are you in adversity? Do not mourn in the darkness of solitude, do not regulate your sorrow according to the indulgent sympathy of your intimate friends; return, as soon as possible, to the day-light of the world and of society. Live with strangers, with those who know nothing, or care nothing about your misfortune; do not even shun the company of enemies; but give yourself the pleasure of mortifying their malignant joy, by making them feel how little you are affected by your calamity, and how much you are above it.

--Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Link via Dan Drezner.)

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

William Shakespeare, King Henry VI (Courtesy of reader Bruce Lagasse in comments to this post.)