لكنّي أعلم هذا: لو حمل الناسُ جميعًا همومهم إلى السوق ليتبادلوها، لَمَا فعل أحدهم، بعد أن يرى همومَ جاره، إلا أن يعود فرحًا بهمومه هو.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.”Herodotus
هيرودوت
مؤرخ · 484–425 ق.م. له 103 حكمة في الموقع.
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