Don't let the impression of other people's grief carry you away indiscriminately. Help them, yes, as best you can and as the case deserves, even if their grief is for the loss of something indifferent: but do not imagine their loss as any real harm - that is the wrong way of thinking. Rather, you should be like the old man in the play who reclaimed at the end his foster-child's favorite toy, never forgetting that it was only a toy. So there you are, broadcasting your pity on the hustings - have you forgotten, man, what these things are worth? 'Yes, but they are important to these folk'. Is that any reason for you to join their folly?
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