The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.