Once, among friends, a noble gentleman, reputed to be a bookworm and an entertaining storyteller, began to passionately prove that he had supposedly lived in this world more than once before. In order to give more weight to his words, he even referred to the famous statement of the ancient sage and scientist Pythagoras.
But one of the friends kept making fun of the narrator, inserting sarcastic remarks, and preventing him from finishing the story. Completely angry, the admirer of ancient philosophy decided to reason with the scoffer and declared:
“To prove that I’m right, I remember that in that distant time, you, ignoramus, were a simple miller.”
These words clearly touched a nerve with his friend, but he was not one of those who needed to be pulled by the tongue.
- Who's arguing with you? “You’re absolutely right, as always,” he replied. “Should I not remember that in those days it was you, my friend, who was the same donkey who carried bags of grain to my mill?”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru