Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 211. The quote today is another
one, I haven't done one in a while by him by Aesop, the Greek fable
writer. Remember Aesop's fables. So and this is the quote " No act of kindness , no
matter how small is ever wasted. " Okay, good. Let's continue. Let's look at the
note here. This quote by Aesop comes from his famous fable "The Lion and the Mouse. "
Yeah. And remember I think I mentioned this in the last ones I did by him.
Remember at one time he was a slave and he made most of his fables he used
animals in them. And one of the reasons he used animals is because he was really
basing the animals on real people , but he didn't want the real people to realize
who he was writing about so he substituted animals instead of people. So
that's why a lot of his fables actually have animals in them. All right. Let's
continue. In the story, a small Mouse is caught by a lion and is set free as an
act of kindness instead of being eaten. Even though the lion did catch him first , but
still he could have ate him and he decided to set him free. Just, just to be
nice. Okay. Later in the story the mouse happens upon the lion trapped in net. So
just comes across him by chance. The mouse remembers the kindness of the lion
letting him go. He therefore chews through the rope helping to set the lion
free. Okay, good. So let's continue. The moral of the story is that you never
know an unconditional act of kindness. So unconditional means you know, you don't
require that somebody does something else for you. You're just doing this act
of kindness just to be nice. You're making no conditions. You're saying well
I'll do this for you, if you do this for me. Unconditionally you just do it for
them. An unconditional act of kindness done for someone may in some way
come back to help you. Okay. It alludes to the idea of karma. If you do good things
good things are more likely to come back to you. Of course, that works the opposite
way too. So don't do bad things because then also would mean bad things are more
likely to come around to you. In English we often describe this as you know, what
comes around goes around or we can reverse the same phrase as
what goes around comes around. The lion never imagined the mouse would
be able to do anything for him. Yet he freed the mouse. So he did this kind act
of you know an act of kindness and it ended up saving him as well. Anyway I
hope you got it. I hope was clear. Thank you for your time.
Bye-bye.