No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and…”

“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than …”

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate …”

“The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the…”