they almost died with laughing at it.) The sight of suffering does one good, the infliction of suffering does one more good-this is a hard maxim, but none the less a fundamental maxim, old, powerful, and "human, all-too-human"; one, moreover, to which perhaps even the apes as well would subscribe:
Sufritzen ikusteak ongizatea sortzen du; sufrimendua eragiteak, ongizate handiagoa oraindik-hau tesi gogorra da, baina axioma antzinako, ahaltsu, gizatiarra, gizatiarregia da, gainerakoan, tximinoek ere izenpetuko luketena;