A man, having put a statue of a god on the back of an ass, was leading it to town. As the passers-by prostrated themselves before the statue, the ass, imagining that it was he who was being worshipped, could not contain his pride; he began to bray and refused to go on. The ass-driver, guessing his thoughts, said to him, striking him with his cudgel, "Poor brain! It only remained for this, to see an ass worshipped by men."
Those who take pride in the advantages of others lay themselves open to the mockery of those who know them.
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