'Do not behave like a crippled fox! Be like a lion

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'Saadi Sherazi' in his Bostan told a story about people mis-diagnose and mis-interpret their capacities and situation imitating others. 

One day a man saw a limbless fox and wondered how it could keep itself alive, so he decided to watch it. Presently a lion came along with some meat, at some of it and abandoned the rest. From this fox made his meal.

The watching man concluded on the basis of this incident that he should do the same, since Providence would surely accord him similar treatment. He waited a long time, but that happened was that he got weaker and weaker. But eventually a voice said to him: ' Do not behave like a crippled fox! Be like a lion, so that you can obtain something and leave some for others.


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