Of the Things of which we May Laugh, III

Continued from: 

http://sophlylaughing.blogspot.fr/2012/10/of-things-of-which-we-may-laugh-ii.html

 All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes mislead us toward negative feelings; and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in seriousness in that by which we have even once been deceived (90% of what kills us never happens).