Theater of the World

The First Book.

order and confusion that is currently rampant in Christendom, would have sufficient, and indeed much more cause, to laugh twice as much and to mock us.

Alongside these, however, there is yet another type, though of a very strange and rare nature, who not only did not wish to be satisfied by murmuring against nature and complaining about its effects, but out of their own envy, joined themselves to others of their kind, and thought nothing else but that nature had set them as if to a target or goal, at which they wished to shoot the arrows of their wrath and displeasure. Timon, an Athenian philosopher. Among them was Timon, an Athenian philosopher, the foremost patriarch of his sect, who publicly declared himself an arch-enemy of mankind, testified to this before everyone, and finally proved it with his actions.

For he never wished to have any association with any man, but spent his life alone among wild animals in a desert that lay far away from people, so that he might not be seen or visited by anyone.