FableNº 100

The Woodcutters and the Pine

Some woodcutters were splitting a pine, and they split it easily thanks to the wedges they had made from its own wood. And the pine said, "I bear less of a grudge against the axe that cuts me than against the wedges that were born of me."

It is not so hard to suffer ill treatment from strangers as from our own kin.

Moral

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