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We Laugh, Lest We Cry
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David C Kifer
Feb 29, 2012, 11:54:18 PM2/29/12
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He [Machiavelli] was one of those gregarious men who combine a cynical disdain for human nature in
the abstract with a genuine warmth for people in the flesh. The more Fortune rebuffed him, the more
he was inclined to see the comic side of life, discovering in laughter the best antidote to what
ailed him. As he wrote to Frencesco Vettori, quoting lines of Petrarch:
So if at times I laugh or sing,
It is because only thus
May I give voice to my anguished cries.
--Miles J. Unger, _Machiavelli_ (2011)
[Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian
scholar and poet.]
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Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
the abstract with a genuine warmth for people in the flesh. The more Fortune rebuffed him, the more
he was inclined to see the comic side of life, discovering in laughter the best antidote to what
ailed him. As he wrote to Frencesco Vettori, quoting lines of Petrarch:
So if at times I laugh or sing,
It is because only thus
May I give voice to my anguished cries.
--Miles J. Unger, _Machiavelli_ (2011)
[Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian
scholar and poet.]
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
SteveMR200
Mar 1, 2012, 7:00:00 AM3/1/12
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:54:18 -0500, David C Kifer wrote in message:
<jimvd...@news6.newsguy.com>:
>He [Machiavelli] was one of those gregarious men who combine a cynical
>disdain for human nature in the abstract with a genuine warmth for
>people in the flesh. The more Fortune rebuffed him, the more he was
>inclined to see the comic side of life, discovering in laughter the
>best antidote to what ailed him. As he wrote to Frencesco Vettori,
>quoting lines of Petrarch:
>
>So if at times I laugh or sing,
>It is because only thus
>May I give voice to my anguished cries.
>
>--Miles J. Unger, _Machiavelli_ (2011)
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has
a sense of the comic. It is only by the deepest
suffering that one acquires the authority in the
art of the comic.
--Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855
--
Steve
<jimvd...@news6.newsguy.com>:
>He [Machiavelli] was one of those gregarious men who combine a cynical
>disdain for human nature in the abstract with a genuine warmth for
>people in the flesh. The more Fortune rebuffed him, the more he was
>inclined to see the comic side of life, discovering in laughter the
>best antidote to what ailed him. As he wrote to Frencesco Vettori,
>quoting lines of Petrarch:
>
>So if at times I laugh or sing,
>It is because only thus
>May I give voice to my anguished cries.
>
>--Miles J. Unger, _Machiavelli_ (2011)
a sense of the comic. It is only by the deepest
suffering that one acquires the authority in the
art of the comic.
--Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855
--
Steve
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