Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness
The Crab and the Fox
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green
meadow as its feeding ground. A Fox came across him, and being
very hungry ate him up. Just as he was on the point of being eaten,
the Crab said, “I well deserve my fate, for what business had I
on the land, when by my nature and habits I am only adapted for
the sea?’
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
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The Woman and Her Hen
A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She
often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of
one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen
a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat
and sleek, and never once laid another egg.
The Ass and the Old Shepherd
A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was
alarmed all of a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to
the Ass to fly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the
animal lazily replied, “Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely
the conqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?’ “No,”
rejoined the Shepherd. “Then,” said the Ass, “as long as I carry the
panniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?’
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