Aesop's Fables — Aesop
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Aesop's Fables
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- It is absurd to ape our betters. ¶636
- The Peasant and the Apple-Tree ¶637
- Self-interest alone moves some men. ¶639
- The Two Soldiers and the Robber ¶640
- The Trees Under the Protection of the Gods ¶642
- A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life. A Swallow, observing what she had done, said, "You silly creature! why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?" ¶658
- The Buffoon and the Countryman ¶659
- A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of death, the bird exclaimed: "O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction." ¶662
- The King's Son and the Painted Lion ¶665
- We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them. ¶667
- The She-Goats and Their Beards ¶671
- THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity. "Allow them," said Jupiter, "to enjoy an empty honor and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage." ¶672
- It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances. ¶673
- AN ARAB CAMEL-DRIVER, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down. The poor beast replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that the level way through the desert is closed?" ¶675
- The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass ¶676
- A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, "I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg." ¶685
- They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ¶686
- The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions. ¶695
- The Travelers and the Plane-Tree ¶698
- Some men underrate their best blessings. ¶700
- The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant ¶703
- A WOLF pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain Temple. The Wolf called out to him and said, "The Priest will slay you in sacrifice, if he should catch you." On which the Lamb replied, "It would be better for me to be sacrificed in the Temple than to be eaten by you." ¶706
- The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea ¶709
- The Olive-Tree and the Fig-Tree ¶727
- The Frogs' Complaint Against the Sun ¶737
- Aesopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici, Servumque collocarunt aeterna in basi: Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam; Nec generi tribui sed virtuti gloriam. ¶742
- Duplex libelli dos est: quod risum movet, Et quod prudenti vitam consilio monet. ¶746
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