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FableNº 238

The Fly

A fly had fallen into a pot full of meat. On the point of drowning in the sauce, she said to herself, "I have eaten, I have drunk, I have taken a bath; death can come: I don't mind."

People bear death easily when it comes without pain.
Moral

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