(04-30-2021, 09:06 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Good heavens! I have never seen that picture. It's a shame what old age does to one's looks.
Tell me about it! I'm not pretty any more! I mean, there is still a handsome young rake on the inside yearning to be free, but he can't find his way out any more through the maze of wrinkles! I keep trying to tell him to exit through the top of my head, because no wrinkles there, and no hair any more either to impede his progress, but you just can't teach some folks nothin'!
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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.’