THE ASS AND THE HORSE
A HORSE and an Ass were travelling together.
The Ass congratulated the Horse on being so generously and carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat and not even that without hard work.
But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy.
The Horse was wounded and fell dead on the battlefield.
Then the Ass, seeing all these things, changed his mind, and sympathized with the Horse.
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways (Proverbs 3:31).
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