You Can Never Be Free As Long

A Prisoner Lived In Solitary Confinement For Years. He Saw And Spoke To No One And His Meals Were Served Through An Opening In The Wall. One Day An Ant Came Into His Cell. The Man Contemplated It In Fascination As It Crawled Around The Room. He Held It In The Palm Of His Hand The Better To Observe It, Gave It A Grain Or Two, And Kept It Under His Tin Cup At Night. One Day It Suddenly Struck Him That It Had Taken Him Ten Long Years Of Solitary Confinement To Open His Eyes To The Loveliness Of An Ant.

When You Come To See You Are Not As Wise Today As You Thought You Were Yesterday, You Are Wiser Today.

You Sanctify Whatever You Are Grateful For.

The Philosopher 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.

What Is The Work Of A Master?" Said A Solemn-faced Visitor. "to Teach People To Laugh ," Said The Master Gravely.