Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. Pubilius Syrus. The Moral Sayings of Pubilius Syrus. Number 120.

Scene from the tragedy Andromache by Euripides, Roman fresco from the west wall of the winter triclinium in the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii courtesy of Wikimedia Contributor Wolfgang Rieger.