Some travellers, walking along the seashore, came onto a height. From there, seeing brushwood floating far off, they took it for a great warship; so they waited, thinking it was going to put in. But the brushwood, driven by the wind, having come nearer, they thought they saw, no longer a warship, but a cargo ship. Once it reached the shore, they saw it was brushwood, and said to one another, "How foolish we were to wait for a thing that was nothing!"
Certain those who seem formidable because they are unknown reveal their nothingness at the first test.
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