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Nunc exponamus genera ipsa summatim, quae risum
maxime moveant. Haec igitur sit prima partitio, quod
facete dicatur, id alias in re habere, alias in verbo facetias;
maxime autem homines delectari, si quando risus coniuncte
re verboque moveatur. Sed hoc mementote, quoscumque
locos attingam, unde ridicula ducantur, ex eisdem locis fere
etiam gravis sententias posse duci: tantum interest, quod
gravitas honestis in rebus severisque, iocus in turpiculis et
quasi deformibus ponitur, velut eisdem verbis et laudare
frugi servum possimus et, si est nequam, iocari. Ridiculum
est illud Neronianum vetus in furaci servo: solum esse, cui
domi nihil sit nec obsignatum nec occlusum, quod idem in
bono servo dici solet.
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