A lion, tired from hunting, lay sleeping under a shady tree. Some Mice scrambling over him while he slept, woke him. Laying his paw upon one of them, he was about to crush him, but the Mouse begged for mercy in such moving terms that he let him go. Some time after, the Lion was caught in a net laid by some hunters, and, unable to free himself, made the forest resound with his roars. The Mouse whose life had been spared came, and with his little sharp teeth soon gnawed through the ropes and set the Lion free.
MORAL: Kindness is seldom thrown away, and there is no creature so small that he cannot return a good deed.
One day the Fox overheard a Leopard praising his own beautifully spotted coat. The Fox then told him that, handsome as he might be, he considered himself a great deal handsomer. "Your beauty is of the body," said the Fox; "mine is of the mind."
MORAL: Physical beauty is only skin deep.
A Man and a Lion once argued together as to which belonged to the nobler race. The Man called the attention of the Lion to a statue of a Man strangling a Lion. "That proves nothing at all," said the Lion; "if a Lion had been the carver, he would have made the Lion conquering the Man."
MORAL: Consider the source of the evidence before believing it.
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