Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

When you are delighted with anything, be delighted as with a thing which is not one of those which cannot be taken away, but as something of such a kind, as an earthen pot is, or a glass cup, that, when it has been broken, you may remember what it was and may not be troubled... What you love is nothing of your own: it has been given to you for the ... See more

Abraham Lincoln would later term “a sad sweet feeling in your heart.”