When the sun became very hot, the lion entered the cave to rest in the shade. He lay stretched out on the ground, and a mouse jumped over him.
And the lion stood up, very upset by this incident, and fearfully looked around.
The fox saw the lion and began to make fun of him. But the lion said to her:
“It wasn’t the mouse that I was afraid of.” I can’t bear the thought that a weak mouse could jump over me, the king of beasts!
Ridicule and insults for the powerful and noble are sometimes worse than death.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru