Ridentem dicere verum: how are you? is a Latin language locus contained in the Sermones (or Satire) of the Latin author Orazio (Book I, 1, 24).

His literal translation is: To tell the truth laughing: what does it bother? (in other words: What does it forbid to tell the truth by kidding?).

According to popular tradition, even the famous Arlecchino mask laughing and joking is the use to tell the truth. And behind the dialectical wit of those who, with shrewdness, highlight with the laughter of sometimes hidden truths, one can often conceal a costume castigator.

Among the authors and thinkers in whose works one can see the oresian spirit of Ridentem say verum among other Luciano of Samosata, Michel de Montaigne and Cartesio. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto

wiki