To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
