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De la vie humaine.
Apostrophe.
Pleure (Heraclit) la vie de ce monde:
Car plus en mal que jamais elle abonde.
Ry Democrit, si tu ris onquesmais:
Car plus y ha à mocquer que jamais.
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Cela voyant ne say que faire doy.
Avec toy rire, ou plorer avec toy.[1]
Heraclit perdit les yeulx à force
de plorer les calamitez du monde,
Democrit se fendit la gueulle jus-
que aulx oreilles, à force de rire
des follies du monde. Or est il enco
re doubte s’il y ha
plus à plorer, ou
plus ha [=a]
rire, des maulx, ou des fol-
lies qui y sont, ou lequel estoit
le
plus sage, ou le plus fol des deux.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.148. For Heraclitus, cf. [A58a016]. For the contrast between the despairing tears of Heraclitus (who withdrew from human society) and the sardonic laughter of Democritus when faced with the folly of men, see, among many sources, e.g. Juvenal, Satires 10, 28ff.
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