Posies for a Parlour, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sometimes defining friendship can be simple. If your heart still aches after someone has passed, then you were a true and close friend. They may have physically left this world, but they still walk among us in our hearts.”
2018
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“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
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Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
