Reply #4: Thank you for posting this. I remember reading this in college.

[johnaries]

In fact, I remember sitting in the dorm lounge reading it, the windows to my right with the sun streaming in. I can picture it still in my mind - that's the kind of impact it had on me. I think I had a date and read it while I was waiting for her. I don't remember the girl, but I remember the story.

It's amazing that true wisdom is as truly wise today as it was decades, hundreds, even thousands of years ago.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.