A man bore a grudge against a fox that was doing him damage. He caught it, and, to take ample revenge, tied to its tail some tow soaked in oil and set it alight. But a god sent the fox into the fields of the very man who had loosed it. Now it was harvest time, and the man followed after, lamenting his ruined crop.
We should be patient and not surrender to excessive anger, which often harms the hot-tempered most.Moral
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