Bom senso Em 1990, Franco Zeffirelli filmou Hamlet, com Mel Gibson, Glenn Close e Alan Bates. Numa tragédia construída sobre assassínio, ambição, vingança e falsa loucura, algumas palavras sensatas, ditas por Polónio a seu filho Laertes, de partida para França: And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet, I Acto, Cena III. Em Shakespeare, as melhores observações sobre a vida e os homens não se encontram apenas nas citações mais emblemáticas. --------