FableNº 337

The Wall and the Peg

A wall, brutally pierced by a peg, cried out, "Why do you pierce me, I who have done you no harm?" "It is not I," said the peg, "who am the cause of what you suffer, but the one who strikes me violently from behind."

*It is not the instrument that should be blamed, but the hand that drives it.

Moral

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