04-16-2022, 10:09 PM
I deserve only that which I can gain by my own hands. Anything else is a gift, and all gifts are suspect, since nearly all of them have hidden strings attached.
Especially when they are gifts from strangers who have no rational motive for giving me anything at all.
Those are the worst.
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Especially when they are gifts from strangers who have no rational motive for giving me anything at all.
Those are the worst.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’