Lately I had an iron lamp placed by the side of my household gods; hearing a noise at the door, I ran down, and found that the lamp had been carried off. I reflected that he who had taken the lamp had done nothing strange. What then? Tomorrow, I said, you will find an earthen lamp; for a man only loses that which he has. “I have lost my garment.” The reason is that you had a garment. “I have a pain in my head.” Have you any pain in your horns? Why then are you troubled? For we only lose those things, we only have pains about those things, which we possess.
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