A person’s cheerfulness is one of the traits that reveals them most clearly. Some characters take a long time to understand, but once a person laughs sincerely, much becomes visible at once.
Not everyone knows how to be cheerful in the true sense. Kindly. Contagiously. Without poison and without the desire to humiliate.
And the matter here is not intelligence, but the whole person, their inner arrangement.
If you want to understand who stands before you, do not look only at how a person keeps silent, speaks, cries, or reasons about lofty things. Better look at how they laugh.
Because laughter often opens the soul more precisely than any words.
If a person laughs well, kindly, without malice, this almost always says more about them than all their correct speeches...
