A man who kept cocks found a tame partridge for sale, bought her, and brought her home to feed with the cocks. But they pecked and chased her, and she was heavy-hearted, thinking they spurned her for being of foreign stock. A little later, though, she saw the cocks fighting one another, never parting until they had drawn blood, and she said to herself, "I will not complain any longer of being struck by these cocks; for I see they do not even spare their own."
Sensible people bear their neighbours' insults more easily once they see those neighbours spare not even their own kin.Moral
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