"Andrew On Prostitutes" 
by Gibran Khalil Gibran 

THE QUEST

A thousand years ago two philosophers met on a slope of Lebanon, and one said to the
other, "Where goest thou?" And the other answered, "I am seeking after the fountain of
youth which I know wells out among these hills. I have found writings which tell of that
fountain flowering toward the sun. And you, what are you seeking?" 

The first man answered, "I am seeking after the mystery of death." Then each of the two
philosophers conceived that the other was lacking in his great science, and they began
to wrangle, and to accuse each other of spiritual blindness. 

Now while the two philosophers were loud upon the wind, a stranger, a man who was
deemed a simpleton in his own village, passed by, and when he heard the two in hot
dispute, he stood awhile and listened to their arguement. 

Then he came near to them and said, "My good men, it seems that you both really
belong to the same school of philosophy, and that you are speaking of the same thing,
only you speak in different words. One of you is seeks the fountain of youth, and the
other seeks the mystery of death. Yet indeed they are but one, and as they dwell in you
both." 

Then the stranger turned away saying, "Farewell sages." And as he departed he
laughed a patient laughter. 

The two philosophers looked at each other in silence for a moment, and then they
laughed also. And one of them said, "Well now, shall we not walk and seek together."