The Wisdom of Proverbs and Parables

Do we feel sympathy for the devil because we are evil, or because we are good? That's not a riddle, nor is it a rhetorical question, but a genuine inquiry. Calil gibran would teach us in the prophet that the murdered is not unaccountable for the murderer. And so what can we do but turn to literature in order to console our tortured would-be self?! The answer is pain. We remeber that which is intensely painful and the proverbs make sense only when we have painfully lived them. At the hardcalled literature book club, we recently shared our one passage. If we had to choose just one from our recent reading that impressed us the most,