There were two brothers: one served the king, and the other earned bread by the labor of his hands. One day a nobleman said to his brother:
- Why don’t you enter the royal service in order to free yourself from hard work?
“Why don’t you work,” answered the poor man, “in order to get rid of the humiliation of servility?” After all, the sages said: it is better to eat bread sitting down than to gird yourself with a golden belt and stand serving another.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru