Translations:CP 03024/13/en
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Like certain pieces of good fortune, there are also pieces of misfortune which come to us too late, and can no longer assume the magnitude they would have had for us a little earlier[1]. By the time I learned this I was already consoled. And there was no reason to be surprised by it. Regret really is a physical malady, but between physical maladies we must distinguish those that only act on the body by the intermediary of memory. In the last case the prognosis is generally favourable. After a certain period of time a patient who is suffering from cancer will be dead. It is very rarely that the grief of an inconsolable widower is not healed after a period of time[2].