A Kiss of Beauty Once upon a time there lived an incomparably beautiful girl, but she had neither a husband nor a groom. It is a fact that a wise man lived next to her, and said: "Whoever decides to kiss the beauty will die!" Everyone knew that the wise man was never wrong, so hundreds of brave horsemen looked at the girl from afar, and did not even dare to approach her. And suddenly one day a young man appeared who, like everyone else, fell in love with beauty at first sight. But he immediately climbed over the fence, approached and kissed the girl. - Ah! - shouted the horsemen. – Now he will die! But the young man kissed the girl again and again. And she immediately agreed to marry him. - But how can that be?! - cried the other horsemen. - You, wise man, predicted that whoever kisses the beauty will die?! "So be it," answered the wise man. But I never said it would happen immediately. He will die sometime later, when after many years of happy life his time will come. The Parable of Edigi the Wisdom of the East