The Flies And The Honey-Pot
Aesop Fable: The Flies And The Honey-Pot
A number of flies were attracted to a jar of honey which
had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing
their feet in it, ate greedily.
Their feet, however, became
so smeared with the honey that they could not use their
wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.
Just
as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures
that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed
ourselves."
Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
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