the village idiot
It is said that in an inland town, a group of people had fun with the town idiot, a poor wretch of little intelligence, who lived doing small errands and alms. Every day some men called the fool to the bar where they met and offered him a choice between two coins: a large one of 400 reales and another smaller one, but of 2000 reales. He always took the largest and least valuable, which was a source of laughter for everyone. One day, someone who was watching the group have fun with the innocent man, called him aside and asked him if he still hadn’t noticed that the larger coin was worth less, and he replied: I know, I’m not that stupid, it’s worth five times less. , but the day I choose the other, the little game ends and I won’t win my coin anymore.
This story could end here, as a simple joke, but several conclusions can be drawn:
The first: Who seems stupid, is not always.
The second: Who were the real fools in history?
The third: An excessive ambition can end up cutting off your source of income.
But the most interesting conclusion is: We can be well, even when others do not have a good opinion of ourselves. Therefore, what matters is not what they think of us, but what one thinks of oneself.
“The truly intelligent man is the one who appears to be a fool in front of a fool who appears to be intelligent”
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