This world of ours is full of foolish creatures too -
Commoners want to build chateaux;
Each princeling wants his royal retinue;
Each count his squires. And so it goes..Jean de La fontaine is still very accurate, look at our world, look at us, look at you...
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox” | |
Benjamin Franklin
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The frog started puffing and swelled from his normal size.
"Am I as large as the wonderful ox?" he asked his friends.
"No, no, not near as grand as the ox," they replied.So, the frog puffed himself up more and more, trying to reach the state of the ox.
"Now? now?" asked the frog.
"No, no. But please, don't try anymore," pleaded his friends.
But the frog continue to puff and swell, larger and larger until he finally burst. Aesop Fable
(was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.)
Have you ever used Flattering?
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
Let me tell you a tale from Jean de La Fontaine of course our French fables writerMister Raven, perched on a tree,Held a cheese in his beak.smell, Addressed him in languageHow pretty you are! How beautiful you seem to me! In truth, if your song is like your plumage, You are the phoenix of the hosts of this wood. At these words the raven becomes overjoyed; And, to show off his beautiful voice, He opens his beak wide and lets his prey fall. The fox grabs it and says: My dear man, Learn that every flattererThe lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?"The crow, shamefaced and flustered swore,Too late, however: "Nevermore!thrive on fools' credulity.