An ass clad in a lion's skin passed in everyone's eyes for a lion, and he put men to flight, he put beasts to flight. But the wind, having blown, carried off the skin, and the ass was left bare. Then everyone ran at him and struck him with blows of stick and club.
If you are poor and a simple private person, do not model yourself on the rich: it would only expose you to ridicule and danger; for we cannot make our own what is foreign to us.Moral
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