A short-short story from the collection, The Four Million, by O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), known as the American Guy de Maupassant, because both writers wrote stories with plot twists at the very end.
More aphorisms and commentary from Balthasar Gracián, the 17th century Spanish Jesuit philosopher, offering counsel on surviving and thriving in the life of the court and society in general.
Greek philosopher Pythagoras, while sojourning in India, encounters an herb, an oyster, and a mob of Hindus bent on burning two men at the stakes for the perceived heresies of questioning religious traditional wisdom.
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