Humor very often cuts the knot of serious questions more trenchantly and successfully… — Horace
Humor very often cuts the knot of serious questions more trenchantly and successfully than severity.
In the original Latin
Ridiculum acri fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.
Satires · 34 BC
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Romulus. Quoted in Satires and Epistles, written by Horace, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1.
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Romulus. Quoted in Saturae [Satires], written by Horace. c. 35 BC, bk. 1.