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Book III Introduction: Simonides the poet, my Sossius Senecio, seeing one of the company sit silent and discourse nobody, said: Sir, if you are a fool, it is wisely done; if a wise man, very foolishly. It is good to conceal a man's folly, but (as Heraclitus says) it is very hard to do it over a glass of wine,
Which doth the gravest men to mirth advance, And let them loose to sing, to laugh, and dance, And speak what had been better left unsaid.[73]