One day Molla Nasreddin was walking along the road to Bukhara. He got a restless and talkative man as his traveling companion. He asked Molla questions and, without waiting for answers, he found them himself, telling incidents from his life, and more often from the lives of his friends. Molla kept silent more and more, and soon only his fellow traveler spoke:
— Kings should not hunt with falcons, it is better with golden eagles, a golden eagle easily takes a lamb... Lamb must be cooked with special grass. My relative, a cook at the Shah’s court in Bukhara, said that this seasoning sharpens the mind. I could become an adviser to the Shah - I ate this roast so often! But the Shah is surrounded only by fools... By the way, how to recognize a fool?..
“According to two signs,” Nasreddin suddenly spoke again. - A fool talks a lot about things that are useless to him, and speaks out about things that he is not asked about.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru