The Words Of Socrates

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Title:     The Words Of Socrates
Author: Jean de La Fontaine [More Titles by La Fontaine]

A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!
'I ask,' said he, 'no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill e'en this.'
And reason had good Socrates
To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.

[The end]
Jean de La Fontaine's poem: Words Of Socrates

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