<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512249" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 18</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I noticed the son of a rich man, sitting on the grave of his father and quarreling with a dervish-boy, saying: ‘The sarcophagus of my father’s tomb is of stone and its epitaph is elegant. The pavement is of marble, tesselated with turquois-like bricks. But what resembles thy father’s grave? It consists of two contiguous bricks with two handfuls of mud thrown over it.’ The dervish-boy listened to all this and then observed: ‘By the time thy father is able to shake off those heavy stones which cover him, mine will have reached paradise.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> An ass with a light burden <br> No doubt walks easily. <br> A dervish who carries only the load of poverty <br> Will also arrive lightly burdened at the gate of death <br> Whilst he who lived in happiness, wealth and ease <br> Will undoubtedly on all these accounts die hard. <br> At all events, a prisoner who escapes from all his bonds <br> Is to be considered more happy than an amir taken prisoner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512249" data-title="Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 18 de Sa di" data-description="I noticed the son of a rich man, sitting on the grave of his father and quarreling with a dervish-boy, saying: ‘The sarcophagus of my father’s tomb is of stone and its epitaph is elegant. The pavement is of marble, tesselated with turquois-lik..."></div> </div> </div>

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