Pearls of Wisdom

Like any animal that takes birth

It strives and it fights

All along to prove its worth.

Like nations conquer new frontiers

Not as much for real progress

But in competition with its peers

 

How different is man himself

His life is a mad race
Amassing power and pelf

This life-long struggle, to be at the top
Is all about showing it off

To friends and neighbors, never to stop.  

‘Tis not in acquisition, but in renunciation
The royal triumph is in restraint
The virtues of austerity and moderation
‘Tis not in material possessions and greed
But in giving freely away
Lies real victory indeed

Replete is history with stories and morals
But only a fool wouldn’t pay heed
Pearls of wisdom in many a life trials

Simple lifestyle and spartan trait
Diogenes created his own fate
‘N won over Alexander the Great!

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