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The Olympian Vice. ⁠—Despite the philosopher who, as a genuine Englishman, tried to bring laughter into bad repute in all thinking minds⁠—“Laughing is a bad infirmity of human nature, which every thinking mind will strive to overcome” (Hobbes)⁠—I would even allow myself to rank philosophers according to the quality of their laughing⁠—up to those who are capable of golden laughter. And supposing that Gods also philosophize, which I am strongly inclined to believe, owing to many reasons⁠—I have no doubt that they also know how to laugh thereby in an overman-like and new fashion⁠—and at the expense of all serious things! Gods are fond of ridicule: it seems that they cannot refrain from laughter even in holy matters.