Aesops Fables

People are not always what they appear to be. One cannot change a person's inherent nature. Just because a person wears a mask, he cannot become somebody else. A person is judged not by how he looks but how he behaves.

God only helps those who help themselves. Being helpless and idle does not pay. These are the lessons Hercules teaches the lazy man whose wagon gets stuck in the mud.

The ants worked hard during the summer to ensure that they lived a good life in the winter. But the lazy grasshopper that sang his way through summer was left cold and without food in the winter.

The Bear and the Two Travellers' highlights the importance of true friendship. Friends are those who you can rely on for help in times of need and difficulty. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Loyalty is a necessary virtue and must be preserved. The bat is caught choosing sides when a fierce battle rises between the birds and the beasts. Always wishing to be on the side of the winner, the disloyal bat finds himself alone when the battle is over. The deceitful have no friends.

This is a story about a mean and selfish dog that begrudges and deprives another animal of something he himself has no use for. If he cannot enjoy it, no one else can either. Who and what does the spoilsport dog deny through his churlish behaviour?