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LA FONTAINE
The Fool who Sold Wisdom
Fable
DATE OF ONLINE PUBLICATION: Saturday 8 January 2005
Of all the things that I have said,
There’s nothing wiser I have to teach you
Than to run from a guy who has holes in his head.
One often sees them near a crown.
The king finds it amusing when their barbs bring down
Some self-important fop, some fraud, some courtly clown.
A fool went shouting all about the town,
That he sold wisdom. Soon, people were thickly pressed
Around him, each more credulous than the rest.
But after a bit one saw disgruntled faces,
For what their money bought
Was a swat on the ear and a thread-in length, two paces.
Most got angry-but anyone who thought
About it might have seen that this made them appear
In a worse light yet. Far better in this case
Had each one walked away, silently rubbing his ear
And clutching his thread, a rueful smile on his face.
For to think that one perceives a rational motive here
Makes little sense. Randomness better explains
The fantasies in damaged brains.
Still, one of his puzzled victims, hoping to resolve,
First, the sudden blow and then the proffered thread,
Consulted a sage, who scarcely paused before he said,
«These things are hieroglyphics, simple ones to solve.
All those who hope to prosper would do well to place
Between themselves and fools a space
Which this thread measures. If they do not,
They will receive a similar swat.
You were not cheated. The fool sold wisdom-which you got.»
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Arnaut DANIEL
Though Raimon and Truc Malec
Pus Raimons e Truc Malecx
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Lewis Carroll
What the Tortoise said to Achilles
Published in 1894
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LA FONTAINE
The Fool who Sold Wisdom
Fable
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Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan - Chapter 7 : Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse
The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (1651)
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Jean LA FONTAINE
The Shepherd and the King
Book X - Fable IX
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