البكاء وراء الميت خسارة
“Weeping over the dead is a loss.”
Grieving endlessly over what cannot be changed only wastes one's own strength.
— Traditional Morocco Wisdom, Morocco
Source: Traditional Moroccan (Darija) proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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