Capitolo 22
humour and it puts in ridiculous in the possession of a sick-natured the man. There
you/he/she cannot be a greater gratification to a Barbaric and inhuman intelligence,
whether to mix on the pain in the heart of a private person, to raise
uneasiness among you report near, and to show whole families to
derision, to the same duration that he remains not seen and unexplored.
If, besides the completions to be witty and sick-natured, a
man is vicious in the bargain, he is one of the most harmful
creatures that can enter a civil society. His/her wish of satire then
fall for the more on those that should be the more exempted by him.
What it is praiseworthy, will be done the
subject of ridicule and buffoonery. It is impossible to enumerate
the evils that rises from these arrows that they fly in the dark; and me
doesn't know any other excuse that is or you/he/she can be built for them, that that the
you hurt that them damage they are only imaginary, and it doesn't produce anything more than a
secret shame or it is distressed in the mind of the person of suffering. It owes
indeed is confessed that a satire or a satire don't bring them
theft or murder; but to the same duration, how much that is there
it would not lose rather a considerable sum of money or the equal life
it, that has put on as a mark of the infamy and derision? And in
this case that a man should consider that a damage won't be measured
notions give of him that it gives, but of him that receives him/it.
Those on that you/they can put the best expression it outrages him of this
nature that is offered them, is not without their secret anguish.
I have often observed a passage in the behaviour of Socrates to his/her death
in a light where none of the critics you/he/she has considered him. That
excellent man that entertains his/her friends a few before he drank the
bowl of poison, with a dissertation on the immortality of the soul to
its registration on him says that he doesn't believe more anymore some the
comic genius can blame to speak to him/it on such subject to this way
to a duration. This passage, I think, evidently the looks on