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"Una zorra que huía de unos cazadores, al ver a un leñador, le pidió que la escondiera. Éste le sugirió que entrase en su cabaña y se ocultase. No mucho después, se acercaron los cazadores y le preguntaron al leñador si había visto a una zorra pasar por allí. Aquél negó haberla visto, pero haciendo un gesto con la mano, les indicó dónde se ocultaba. Pero, como ellos no entendieran lo que se les apuntaba por señas y creyeran lo que decía, la zorra, al verlos retirarse, salió y se marchó sin decir nada. Cuando el leñador le reprochó que, aunque la había salvado, no le había dado ni las gracias, dijo: "Te las habría dado, si hubieses tenido las mismas actitudes y gestos con las manos que con tus palabras". De estas fábula se podría uno servir contra aquellos hombres que proclaman sin duda su honradez, pero con sus acciones cometen maldades."
Aesop (or Æsop, from Greek Αἴσωπος Aisopos) (c. 620 BC – c. 560 BC) was an ancient Greek fabulist of possibly African descent (his Greek name means Ethiopian or black man in today's parlance), by tradition a slave who credited the African goddess Isis for his gift. Aesop's Fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons.
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A Man and a Lion were companions on a journey, and in the course of conversation they began to boast about their prowess, and each claimed to be superior to the other in strength and courage. They were still arguing with some heat when they came to a cross-road where there was a statue of a Man strangling a Lion. “There!” said the Man triumphantly, “look at that! Doesn’t that prove to you that we are stronger than you?” “Not so fast, my friend,” said the Lion: “that is only your view of the case. If we Lions could make statues, you may be sure that in most of them you would see the Man underneath.” There are two sides to every question.
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