The oaks were complaining to Zeus: "In vain," they said, "did we come into the world; for more than all other trees we are exposed to the brutal blows of the axe." Zeus replied, "You yourselves are the authors of your misfortune; if you did not produce the handles for axes, and if you were of no use for carpentry and farming, the axe would not cut you down."
Some people, who are the authors of their own troubles, foolishly lay the blame for them on the gods.Moral
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