The Virgosign on Truth.
Hey people.Since the earliest i can remember, i was always reading. Marvel Comics, illustrated books, Readers Digest and Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia, apart from most pf the classics, all of Enyd Blyton's Famous Five and Agatha Christie's Poirot works.
But a great book which I kept going to over and over from early reading stage to late teenager was a well gnarled copy of Aesop's Fables and all the lessons learned from it.
However the most powerful story that eventually guided me through my life was Hans Christian Andersons's The Emperor's New Clothes.
It taught me to always say the truth !
Politicians the world over today badly need the morals of Aesop's Fables, and the lesson learned from Hans Christian Anderson's fashion inspired tale. Really.
Peace !
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Specifically about Aesop, if I may...
In my childhood I had a special contact with the Fables of Aesop, in a truly shocking way: it helped me in many concepts and perspectives for various life situations.
However, my greatest astonishment was to know many years later, that Aristotle himself already mentioned the fabulist in his wisdom, including devoting part of his argumentative studies (Ars Rhetorica) to the capacity of the old fabulist's examples.
What a corroboration and approval, is not it?
It's never too late to "revisit" the classics (including Aesop), but I am afraid any warnings to politicians are almost always fruitless...