From: Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:15:22 +0100
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Subject: [.plan] Zitat des Tages
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Leonardo Da Vinci - Notizbuecher (Uebersetzung: Jean Paul Richter):
> A FABLE.
> 
> A stone of some size recently uncovered by the water
> lay on a certain spot somewhat raised, and just where
> a delightful grove ended by a stony road; here it was
> surrounded by plants decorated by various flowers of
> divers colours. And as it saw the great quantity of
> stones collected together in the roadway below, it
> began to wish it could let itself fall down there,
> saying to itself: "What have I to do here with these
> plants? I want to live in the company of those, my
> sisters."
> 
> And letting itself fall, its rapid course ended among
> these longed for companions. When it had been there
> sometime it began to find itself constantly toiling
> under the wheels of the carts the iron-shoed feet of
> horses and of travellers. This one rolled it over,
> that one trod upon it; sometimes it lifted itself a
> little and then it was covered with mud or the dung
> of some animal, and it was in vain that it looked at
> the spot whence it had come as a place of solitude
> and tranquil place.
> 
> Thus it happens to those who choose to leave a life
> of solitary comtemplation, and come to live in cities
> among people full of infinite evil.


[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5000/pg5000.txt
[1] http://www.fabelnundanderes.at/leonardo_da_vinci.htm#Der_Stein