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FableNº 63

The Bear and the Fox

A bear was boasting loudly of his love for humankind, on the grounds that he did not eat corpses. The fox replied, "Would to the gods that you tore the dead, and not the living!"

Greed often hides behind hypocrisy and empty self-glory.
Moral

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