"If you kiss your child or your wife, say that you are kissing a
human being. Then if they die you will not be upset." (P 525a)
"Never say about anything that you have `lost it,' but that you have
`given it back.' Your child has died? It has been given back. Your wife
has died? She has been given back." (P 525b)
"A little oil has been spilled, a little wine has been swiped: say to
yourself, `This is the price of peace, that of serenity.'" (P 525b)
"[W]hen it is your [cup] that gets broken, you ought to behave the
same way you did when it was someone else's. Apply this to more important
matters as well." (P 527b)