Taken from Proverbs, Words of Wisdom, by Alice O’Neil
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/proverbs-9781632864420/Transcript:
https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/50605644Speaker 1 (0s): Welcome back everybody. So nice to see you, even though I can't really see ya, like the close my eyes and imagine you're right there. Imagine, imagine a beautiful sunny day with a few birds singing few light clouds out in the sky. Maybe some wind chimes. Isn't that nice. Let's get into some more Proverbs. These are beautiful. Start your day off the right way kind and selfish kind.
Generosity is wealth. They say, and kindness is even better than piety for altruism is the Mark of a superior being. And indeed kindness is the soul's best quality as kindness, nourishes, both giver and receiver. So kindness is not just for the sake of others, because if you sow kindness, you reap gratitude and kindness begets kindness as one.
Good turn deserves another. So even if life is short, a smile only takes a second. And certainly a good word never broke a tooth. Thus, a word of kindness is better than a fat pie. And even if you're hungry, don't go where the food is plentiful, but where the people are kind forget injuries, but never a kindness indeed right? Injuries in the sand, kindness in the marble except a forced kindness deserves.
No thanks. Bear in mind too, that kindness is remembered. Meanness is felt so way. Kindness is easily forgot and unkindness never. And be aware that the sandal tree perfumes, the ax that fills it two kind, yours truly is not always true and too much kindness can lead to tiredness for often the kind hearted becomes a slave, particularly if there is too much kindness, but not enough gratitude.
Just be aware that there is no honey without gall. So speak softly, but carry a big stick and recall that the hand of compassion is stung. When it strokes a scorpion, also be aware that to lend is to buy trouble for he, that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing as the greatest humiliation is helplessness. So try to be envied rather than pitied.
Remember he who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness because he travels fastest and who travels alone. So generally it is better to buy than to receive, especially as the buyer's eyes are in the seller's hands selfish, no one calls on a miser because asking a miser for help is like trying to dig through seawater just as a dog with a bone knows no friends, indeed what you have hold for.
It is better to save than to beg as desire has no rest and a person's desire grows day by day. However, all suffering is caused by desire. So grasp all and you lose all as gluttony kills more than the sword and a glutton young becomes a beggar old, or you can buy, buy, buy, and let the children pay. The debts for a selfish person will even take advantage of wind and clouds.
But he who has much is afraid of many, which is why greed keeps men poor. So don't be a slave to your desires, but know that all that is not given as lost and no man is an Island. Remember the misers bag is never full and coffin carries love and plague, but miser or not. After three days, guests and fish smell and the guest who breaks the dishes is not forgotten.
Thank you very much. Young and old young you're only young once. So make the most of it. The world is your oyster. Although those whom the gods love die, young, everything new is beautiful though. Nothing is so new. It has not happened before. So youth is the time to, so for the vigor of youth passes away like a spring flower, yes, youth slips away as water from a Sandy shore.
You have to learn to walk before you can run, but green twigs bend easily. So instructing the young is like engraving stone just as the young cock crows, as he hears the old one for what youth learns age does not forget a new broom, sweeps clean and diligent youth make easy age, but be aware. Young st. Old devil in fact, youth is wasted on the young for many mysterious roads, broken to young people, indeed youth ignorance and impatience ruined people and young folks think old folks fools while old folks know the young are, you can't put an old head on young shoulders.
So never send a boy to do a man's job. But remember when a Palm branch reaches its height, it must make way for a young one, four. There is always something new out of Africa, old walnuts and pears. You plant for your heirs, but old age comes for free. So the young rely on their parents. The old on their children, youth has a beautiful face old age, a beautiful soul for young twigs may be bent, but not old trees.
Elderly Venus is a richness. So an old man is put in a boat to give advice, not to row for taught by necessity. Old people know a lot. You don't teach the Forrest paths to an old gorilla more than you'd teach your grandmother how to suck eggs. Indeed, many, a good tune is played on an old fiddle. So cherish youth, but trust old age four, it's better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
And even though old cows like young grass, it's better to have an old spouse than none for a man grows old, but his courage remains young barber, old physician. They say four, we grow old fast, but wise only slowly for age doesn't make you wise, but it does make you slow. Of course, young men can die, but old men must for when a lion grows old, the flies attack him, which is why old women get uneasy.
When dry bones are mentioned, as old age leads to something worse, however, nobody is so old that he doesn't think he'll live for another year. So even if you can't teach an old dog new tricks, as we grow old, our bad qualities keep us young, but it's also true that old sins cast along shadows. So although everyone has seen a cradle, nobody knows their grave.
Speaker 2 (8m 40s): Hello
Speaker 1 (8m 40s): And sickness health, a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Indeed. A healthy mind makes a healthy body, which is why a person's health is in his feet. Good health is the sister of, so he who would be healthy. Let him be cheerful for health is better than wealth. Of course, when you're busy, you are never ill because regularity is the best medicine, but life is uncertain.
So eat the dessert first for it's all one, whether you die of illness or love, often health is only valued. When sickness comes as illness gives you a taste for health. So remember prevention is better than cure an Apple a day, keeps the doctor away, but water is the oldest medicine. So take good care of the, well, never forget, have a clean heart.
And you may walk near the altar for if the heart be stout, a mouse can lift an elephant, but even the stout, his heart must fail at last. So your health comes first. You can hang yourself later. Healing laughter is the best medicine just as a library. As medicine for the mind and minor complaints are cured by eating. Otherwise. The sauna is the poor man's pharmacy.
As it's better to sweat than to sneeze, feed a cold starve, a fever and bear in mind. The medicine that hurts does you good? Don't worry for every ailing foot. There's a slipper. So don't hide the truth from your lawyer or your physician as hiding sickness prevents a cure. Every patient is a doctor after his cure, but mind before healing, others heal yourself and then scratch people where they itch console a suffer, even an enemy.
And remember there is no cure for old age, despite the fact that a cracking door hangs longest sickness, nothing tastes good to the sick as illness starts with the mouth and sickness comes in haste and leaves at leisure sickness is everyone's master. Indeed sickness is our common lot for neither hat nor crown help against headache.
And we are all in the laps of the gods. His sickness is awful. A relapse is worse, which is why the worst ache is the present ache and mortals bear. Many ills, desperate ILS require desperate remedies. And if sauna, liquor and tar don't help the diseases fatal note that an imaginary illness is even worse than a real one, because those whom the gods would destroy the first make mad.
It's odd. How sickness has felt that health not at all. So maybe an illness tells us what we are, which is why it's better to have a sick body than an ignorant mind. Remember, no one buys illness with money for sickness is the physician's feast. And if you eat caribou hair, you get an itchy
Speaker 3 (12m 24s): Paging. Dr. Battaglia call extension one nine, eight.
Speaker 1 (12m 31s): Life and death. Life. Life is a dream, but don't wake me. Life has, but a bubble life is like licking honey from a thorn life is the flash of a Firefly. So nobody is quick enough to live life to the full even. So try to live life to the full for as we live. So we learn an art is long and life is short. They'll a good life. Keeps away wrinkles. Life has its ups and downs for life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it, but it is one life.
Whether we spend it laughing or weeping. So remember, life is for one generation. A good name is forever. A person is lent not given life. So live until you die. And don't panic. Indeed live and let live and fear life not death for living is harder than dying. And he, that fears death lives not so don't die before you die or perhaps do die before you die for life is sweet.
And what does the blind man know of the Lotus flowers, beauty with a precipice in front of you, wolves behind you, such as life, therefore live. So the world will cry when you die. And you'll rejoice. Remember the less you sleep, the more you get out of life, also being thin is not death and bad breath is better than no breath at all. Death.
Despite the fact that birth is the remedy of for death. There's no cure for old age. And one is certain only of death just as the top of a tall tree will soon be firewood approaching death is great. You just give up. So don't worry. Death kills worry anyway. And when death is there, dying is over mercifully a nose doesn't smell its own head rotting, and you only die for death is concise.
Like a good proverb. Death is the great leveler. Indeed in death. Everyone is equal as death alone measures equally. Yes, death Combs us all with the same comb death devours lambs, as well as sheep. Death can carry fat czar as easily as a lean beggar. Death takes the poor man's cow and the rich man's child. Death regards spring as winter for death keeps no calendar.
And since death rides a fast camel, it's best to send a lazy messenger to the angel of death. Often you only become important after death, but if there are skeletons in the closet, you'll find death is the revealer of secrets and death has the key to the misers chest for the shroud has no pockets. So death pays all the debts. Indeed, death, rites, everything conveniently dead men don't bite and dead men tell no tales.
So look upon death as going home for even the dead in their vaults enjoy company in the end death defies the doctor for when it's your time. Death is the last doctor and you only sleep really well in your coffin. Remember, we don't even get death for free as it costs us our life Wisdom and idiots wisdom.
Although knowledge is not wisdom. Knowledge is harmony. And if you know yourself, you will know the gods for knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is enlightenment. Actually knowledge is like water for the land. Therefore learn from the mistakes of others. So you don't have to make them yourself for it's better to know too much than too little wisdom begins in wonder, but wisdom only comes when you stop looking for it.
And since knowledge takes up no space and learning is a treasure. No thief can steal. Why not open a school, close a prison for when you educate a woman, you educate a population to know all is to forgive all. So leave half of what you know in your head and be aware that still waters run deep for he who knows, does not speak while he who speaks does not know.
Of course not knowing is Buddha common sense. They say to attain knowledge, add things every day to attain wisdom, remove things every day. And since all sense is not kept under the same roof. Even if you know, a thousand things always ask a man who knows something, indeed seek education. Even if it means traveling to China, good go carefully for in the desert of life.
The wise man travels in a caravan, the fool by himself. It's true. That to get lost is to learn the way. But if you are on the road to nowhere, change the road and don't give up for wisdom rides on the ruins of folly and a disaster teaches more than a thousand warnings, a wise man, drinks, little and believes less because wisdom is the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Indeed only when a tree has grown, can you tie your horse to it? Always remember everything is relative. So everyone likes justice in another's house, none in their own and never forget. Our first teacher is our heart idiots beware wise, looking men as brains are not found in the beard and know that all seems the same to someone who knows nothing just as in the unknown village, the chickens have teeth, sadly, a fool grows without rain, and there is no Royal road to learning, which is why so often the ignorant are the enemies of wisdom.
Remember a person who knows little repeats it often. So fear a man who only knows one book, indeed fear an ignorant man, more than a lion. Listen, a fool is known by his laugh and every fool wants to give advice, but try with all you might, you'll not get milk from a bull and he dog is no help in a Smithy. So only an idiot looks for a calf under an ox.
It's better to leave those in error who love error for by the time an idiot learns the game, the players have dispersed. Indeed the dogs bark, the caravan passes on. Remember even a broken clock is right twice a day. And even the stupidest person seems wise if he keeps his mouth shut, which is why a wise man sits over the hole in his own carpet.