The Donkey Carrying the Image
Aesop Fable: The Donkey Carrying the Image
A donkey once carried through the streets of a city a famous
wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he
passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the
Image. The donkey, thinking that they bowed their heads in
token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave
himself airs, and refused to move another step.
The driver,
seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders
and said, "O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come
to this, that men pay worship to a donkey."
They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.
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