APAD: No man is an island.

Humans are social animals. We need each other to survive. One cannot be entirely

self-reliant, a worthy ideal as it is.

 

Here's the 17th century poem where the proverb first appeared.

 

   No man is an island entire of itself; every man

   is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

   if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe

   is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as

   well as any manner of thy friends or of thine

   own were; any man's death diminishes me,

   because I am involved in mankind.

   And therefore never send to know for whom

   the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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• So，the world is small. -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/15/2023 postreply 17:27:45

• Sure. Sometimes :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/15/2023 postreply 21:09:18

• I practice the life mottos learned through APAD -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/15/2023 postreply 17:56:09

• That's the best testimony for APAD ;-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/15/2023 postreply 21:10:34

• prove Im still a puppy. u cannt teach old dogs new tricks -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/16/2023 postreply 06:16:25

• That's fine. We are all puppies :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/16/2023 postreply 07:05:18