We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence is to lament the loss of that which we possess and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.