Thomas Hobbes — "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudde…"

The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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Human Nature, Chapter IX, Section 13

Date: 1640

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